Portia Simpson Miller Quotes

#1. I wanted it for how it made me feel, regardless of how little it cared for me. Do whatever you want -- just give me the bliss.

C.M. McKenna

#2. But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.

Portia Simpson-Miller

#4. It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

Robert Reich

#5. Chase excellence, success will follow

Rajkumar Hirani

#6. I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on their capabilities, not their sexual orientation.

Portia Simpson-Miller

#7. Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

Torsten Wiesel

#8. Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.

Portia Simpson-Miller

#9. I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.

Hillary Scott

#10. My uniqueness reveals something of Christ that no one else does.

Mike Glenn

#11. My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.

Rick Riordan

#12. If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them hostage.

Portia Simpson-Miller

#13. To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.

Washington Irving

#14. The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.

Ian Caldwell