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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Joe Sakic

My e-mail address is actually my wife’s e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

3 December 2020 Samuel Ullman

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

3 December 2020 Arnold H. Glasow

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

3 December 2020 Kurt Busch

I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.

3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

3 December 2020 Samuel Alexander

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

3 December 2020 Michele Bachmann

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama’s health care bill.

3 December 2020 Werner Heisenberg

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.

3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

3 December 2020 Sam Elliott

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

3 December 2020 Regina Spektor

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I’ve seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don’t know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

3 December 2020 David Lee Roth

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He’s just famous for his sound.

3 December 2020 Layne Staley

Kurt and I weren’t the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

3 December 2020 Alan Watts

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

3 December 2020 Doris Lessing

What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

3 December 2020 Margot Fonteyn

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

3 December 2020 Zoe Kazan

I don’t have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

3 December 2020 Plato

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

3 December 2020 H. P. Blavatsky

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

3 December 2020 Leon Askin

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

3 December 2020 Kyle Chandler

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

3 December 2020 Zebulon Pike

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

3 December 2020 Corrie Ten Boom

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

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