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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

3 December 2020 Sting

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

3 December 2020 Jose Bergamin

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

3 December 2020 Virgil

They succeed, because they think they can.

3 December 2020 Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

3 December 2020 Eugene Ionesco

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

3 December 2020 Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

3 December 2020 Keith Miller

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

3 December 2020 Anthony J. D'Angelo

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

3 December 2020 Mos Def

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

3 December 2020 Charles Babbage

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

3 December 2020 Mae West

When I’m good I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.

3 December 2020 Laurence Housman

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

3 December 2020 Dolly Parton

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

3 December 2020 Lena Dunham

There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’

3 December 2020 George Papandreou

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

3 December 2020 Alexander Pope

And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

3 December 2020 Beth Ditto

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music – well, still not knowing how to play music.

3 December 2020 Ruth Handler

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

3 December 2020 Shel Silverstein

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

3 December 2020 Michelle Obama

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

3 December 2020 Barack Obama

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

3 December 2020 Jim Rohn

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

3 December 2020 George Burns

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

3 December 2020 Oliver Stone

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

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