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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Mark Udall

When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner ’til death do you part.’

3 December 2020 Anita Desai

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

3 December 2020 Hans Kung

That means that every human being – without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin – possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

3 December 2020 William Bartram

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

3 December 2020 Paul Simon

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

3 December 2020 Mike Huckabee

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

3 December 2020 Kevin Bacon

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

3 December 2020 Ken Salazar

I don’t think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.

3 December 2020 Edward Young

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

3 December 2020 Stephan Jenkins

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

3 December 2020 Barry Zito

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.

3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee

This war is not about slavery.

3 December 2020 Alexander Meiklejohn

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

3 December 2020 Robert Anton Wilson

The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.

3 December 2020 Robert Mondavi

Even more importantly, it’s wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

3 December 2020 Nick Clegg

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don’t like comfort-zone politics.

3 December 2020 Henry A. Wallace

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

3 December 2020 Adrian Grenier

It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

3 December 2020 Charles de Lint

Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician’s music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

3 December 2020 Craig Ferguson

It’s the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you’ve got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

3 December 2020 Bernie Sanders

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

3 December 2020 Omar Bongo

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

3 December 2020 Joe Rogan

Your body’s really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

3 December 2020 Ralph Fiennes

I don’t feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they’re extremely well informed.

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