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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Alexandre Dumas

Nothing succeeds like success.

3 December 2020 Grover Norquist

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.

3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

3 December 2020 Laura Linney

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what’s universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

3 December 2020 Vin Scully

I’ve told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

3 December 2020 David Cone

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

3 December 2020 Ai Weiwei

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product it’s an understanding of human nature.

3 December 2020 Morihei Ueshiba

When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

3 December 2020 Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

3 December 2020 Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

3 December 2020 Aphra Behn

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

3 December 2020 Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

3 December 2020 Horace

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

3 December 2020 Chris Rock

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I’m famous.

3 December 2020 Jack Nicholson

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

3 December 2020 Major Owens

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston

A relationship isn’t going to make me survive. It’s the cherry on top.

3 December 2020 Virginia Foxx

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

3 December 2020 Sidney Poitier

History passes the final judgment.

3 December 2020 Corliss Lamont

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character, to be altogether one’s self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

3 December 2020 Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

3 December 2020 Robert Shea

Ultimately we may still ask, why can’t humans design a perfect society?

3 December 2020 Vince Lombardi

Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

3 December 2020 Ruben Studdard

Simon is cool. You know, it’s different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.

3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

3 December 2020 Kristi Yamaguchi

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

3 December 2020 Andy Dick

I have a very dark sense of humor.

3 December 2020 Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.

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