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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

3 December 2020 Flip Wilson

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

3 December 2020 Javier Bardem

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you’re a failure or you’re a success. That mentality is wild.

3 December 2020 Richard Powers

I like to travel and connect.

3 December 2020 William J. Clinton

If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

3 December 2020 Omar Bongo

I’m not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

3 December 2020 Heidi Klum

I can’t look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can’t. I’d rather age.

3 December 2020 Donny Osmond

I got fitter when I did ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.’ I wore a loincloth – that’s a lot of motivation!

3 December 2020 Simon Newcomb

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

3 December 2020 Nicholas Negroponte

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It’s in the education business.

3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

3 December 2020 Michael Shannon

My dad used to say, ‘You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,’ and there’s some validity in it. But honestly, even when I’m inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

3 December 2020 Mike Tyson

I’m a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

3 December 2020 Theodore Dreiser

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

3 December 2020 Albert J. Nock

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will – are all gone.

3 December 2020 Daniel Day-Lewis

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that’s never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

3 December 2020 Jai Rodriguez

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

3 December 2020 Lactantius

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

3 December 2020 Matthew Prior

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

3 December 2020 Adnan Pachachi

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won’t trust in them – and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

3 December 2020 Washington Irving

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

3 December 2020 Ben Stein

It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

3 December 2020 Michael J. Fox

What other people think about me is not my business.

3 December 2020 George Crumb

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

3 December 2020 Jenna Dewan

Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.

3 December 2020 George Osborne

I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

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