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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Plautus

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

3 December 2020 Kenny Chesney

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

3 December 2020 Nigel Farage

It’s about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It’s about health and safety regulations and green fines.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

3 December 2020 Joshua Lederberg

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

3 December 2020 Louis Aragon

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason’s imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

3 December 2020 Milton Friedman

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.

3 December 2020 W. C. Fields

Sleep – the most beautiful experience in life – except drink.

3 December 2020 Thomas Reid

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

3 December 2020 Pete Seeger

I fought for peace in the fifties.

3 December 2020 Dora Russell

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

3 December 2020 Thomas Sowell

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

3 December 2020 David Mamet

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

3 December 2020 Russ Feingold

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

3 December 2020 Virginia Foxx

China’s idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

3 December 2020 Trisha Goddard

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn’t have to keep up the facade.

3 December 2020 Mick Cornett

We’ve seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they’re great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

3 December 2020 Will Estes

I’ve always been an animal lover. I’ve grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on ‘Lassie’, I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

3 December 2020 Michael Servetus

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

3 December 2020 Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

3 December 2020 Ninon de L'Enclos

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

3 December 2020 Donna Shalala

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

3 December 2020 Robert Jackson

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

3 December 2020 Conrad Black

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

3 December 2020 Rowan Atkinson

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

3 December 2020 Evita Peron

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

3 December 2020 Ian Hamilton Finlay

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry – still.

3 December 2020 Charles Darwin

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

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