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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Adam Clarke

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

3 December 2020 Harold S. Geneen

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

3 December 2020 Warren Buffett

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

3 December 2020 M. Scott Peck

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

3 December 2020 Bob Wells

In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we’re hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.

3 December 2020 Thomas Paine

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

3 December 2020 Lizzie Brochere

Of course I believe in aliens. I think it’s very egocentric to think that there’s nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.

3 December 2020 Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

3 December 2020 John Sununu

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

3 December 2020 Kid Rock

I didn’t want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

3 December 2020 Sarah Michelle Gellar

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don’t remember. I can’t even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

3 December 2020 Renee Fleming

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it’s about not getting bored.

3 December 2020 Harlan Coben

If I’m not writing well, I’m not happy. If I’m not spending enough time with my family, I’m not happy. If I’m not connecting to friends or if I don’t work out enough… You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

3 December 2020 Rodney Dangerfield

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

3 December 2020 Herman Hesse

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

3 December 2020 Rene Russo

I don’t know much about sports.

3 December 2020 John Kricfalusi

Joe Barbera’s s always complaining that he can’t get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You’ve got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

3 December 2020 Herodotus

Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

3 December 2020 Karen Russell

Now I’ll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn’t that a sad confession? But it’s like my substitute for the roaring fireplace of yore.

3 December 2020 Bono

It’s a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That’s where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

3 December 2020 Lord Byron

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.

3 December 2020 Henry Ford

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

3 December 2020 George MacDonald

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

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