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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Eli Khamarov

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

3 December 2020 Peter Bichsel

That is a secondary teacher conception – the writer as an observer.

3 December 2020 Daniel Yergin

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

3 December 2020 Mia Wasikowska

I love seeing my family.

3 December 2020 Ken Follet

One of the hardest things for me, now that I’m famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring

The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

3 December 2020 Felix Frankfurter

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

3 December 2020 Cofer Black

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

3 December 2020 Barry Gibb

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.

3 December 2020 H. P. Lovecraft

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

3 December 2020 Wolfgang Puck

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don’t have very good service.

3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

3 December 2020 David Rockefeller

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

3 December 2020 Doris Lessing

It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

3 December 2020 Arizona Muse

I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.

3 December 2020 Russell Baker

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can – it’s a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn’t get fried.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

3 December 2020 Paul Theroux

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

3 December 2020 Ellen DeGeneres

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

3 December 2020 Bill Hicks

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

3 December 2020 Max Irons

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It’s like medicine – very healing.

3 December 2020 Michael D. Higgins

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

3 December 2020 Andy Griffith

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I’m getting older, I realized that I’m walking even closer with my God.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

3 December 2020 J. D. Hayworth

The American people are not just being taxed to death they’re being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life’s work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

3 December 2020 Bill Pullman

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn’t want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

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