Friends Oprah Quotes

#1. When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.

John C. Wright

#2. If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

Steve Burns

#4. When I didn't have friends, I had books.

Oprah Winfrey

#5. I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#6. Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. Clever tyrants are never punished.

Voltaire

#8. I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

Carl Reiner

#9. This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.

LeBron James

#10. Every year, I looked forward to Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things episode. I watched with my notebook computer in my lap so I could Google the items and order them for the friends and family on my holiday gift-giving list.

Lori Wilde

#11. One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

Walter Raleigh

#13. Matisse renovates rather than innovates.

Guillaume Apollinaire

#14. The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. So many of my friends tell me they're not religious. I'm like, Of course you're religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don't you?

Richard Rodriguez

#16. Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.

Tina Fey

#17. Atheism is easy in fair weather.

Ronald Dunn

#18. Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.

Benjamin Hart

#19. I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."

Oprah Winfrey

#20. My primary responsibility is to be funny.

Al Madrigal

#21. If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

Oprah Winfrey

#22. I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.

Rhys Darby

#23. There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Charles Spurgeon