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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

3 December 2020 Lorna Luft

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

3 December 2020 Laura Riding

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

3 December 2020 Hyman Rickover

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

3 December 2020 Joe Montana

In sports… you play from the time you’re eight years old, and then you’re done forever.

3 December 2020 Will Cuppy

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

3 December 2020 Ernie Harwell

It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

3 December 2020 Peter Steele

Well, darkness with humor… I’m not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

3 December 2020 Og Mandino

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

3 December 2020 Fidel Castro

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

3 December 2020 Paul Gleason

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

3 December 2020 Alice Walker

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

3 December 2020 Marie Curie

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

3 December 2020 Joseph Howe

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

3 December 2020 Gayle King

When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I’d lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan’s popcorn with me to the movies.

3 December 2020 Jim Ryun

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

3 December 2020 Maria Sharapova

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese

Film in the 20th century, it’s the American art form, like jazz.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

3 December 2020 Ron Fournier

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington’s reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

3 December 2020 Washington Irving

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal

I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

3 December 2020 Moon Unit Zappa

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it’s a better something.

3 December 2020 Elihu Root

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

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