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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Kim Weston

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

3 December 2020 Frances O'Grady

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I’ve always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

3 December 2020 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

3 December 2020 Francois Hollande

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.

3 December 2020 Tony Kushner

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

I repeat… that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

3 December 2020 Richard G. Scott

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

3 December 2020 Anne Stevenson

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties.

3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

3 December 2020 Nigel Cole

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they’ve really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

3 December 2020 Franz Liszt

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

3 December 2020 Carol P. Christ

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary – it is a really attractive quality.

3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh

I know it when I don’t know it. Sometimes I know it when I don’t think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

3 December 2020 Mike Fitzpatrick

Traditionally, Medicare’s assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

3 December 2020 Tila Tequila

This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she’s still beautiful.

3 December 2020 Philip Roth

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

3 December 2020 Grant-Lee Phillips

I played with the same band for years and years and there’s a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it’s nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.

3 December 2020 Catherine O'Hara

I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ’til December, right?

3 December 2020 Tim Roth

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

3 December 2020 George H. Mead

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

3 December 2020 Emma Goldman

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

3 December 2020 Rob Glaser

Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It’s actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

3 December 2020 George Allen

It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it’s given haven.

3 December 2020 Dorothy L. Sayers

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can’t teach people that – they have to learn by experience.

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