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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ’s followers seem to disagree.

3 December 2020 Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

3 December 2020 Bayard Rustin

When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

3 December 2020 Joseph Joubert

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

3 December 2020 Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

3 December 2020 Chris Martin

You know, it’s possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

3 December 2020 Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

3 December 2020 Anne Sullivan Macy

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

3 December 2020 Paul Wellstone

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

3 December 2020 Dorthea Brande

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

3 December 2020 Zooey Deschanel

I think I’m a fun flatmate. I’m always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it’s 12 people on one bus and I feel like I’m the one who’s happy in the morning. I’m not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

3 December 2020 Ellen Glasgow

Doesn’t all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

3 December 2020 Miles Davis

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

3 December 2020 Geddy Lee

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me – as well as Alex and Neil – as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

3 December 2020 Bela Lugosi

Women have a predestination to suffering.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Hardwick

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

3 December 2020 June Singer

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

3 December 2020 Hal Sparks

I’m a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

3 December 2020 David Deutsch

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn’t forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

3 December 2020 Teddy Thompson

I think I’m too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn’t go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I’m trying to be funny.

3 December 2020 Dolly Parton

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

3 December 2020 Johnny Mathis

It’s very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

3 December 2020 Anne Rice

I broke with my religion in college.

3 December 2020 Seth Lloyd

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

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