Quotes of Colin Powell

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We want the humanitarian workers and other workers in Iraq — reconstruction workers and others — to have a safe environment.

- Colin Powell

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“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ I want to stand in front Allah proud of how well I treated back in dunya. ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ If you want a future that makes you happy, if you want a world that you’re excited about, get your ass out there and earn it. ”

- Tom Bilyeu

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency. ”

- Shah Asad Rizvi

“ Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family. ”

- Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ”

- Og Mandino

“ Numbers by popular consensus don’t make a wrong thing right, and if you are misunderstood for being right, don’t be afraid because they are not yet in the right time zone. ”

- Erwin D. Maramat

“ Without term limits, some remain in office for decades; as a result, their power increases and they feel entitled, and ignore the people they represent; but do not be fooled that term limits would ultimately change representation, for it’s the ignorance of the populace who continue returning the same people to office. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach