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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Florence King

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

3 December 2020 Thomas Paine

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

3 December 2020 Mariska Hargitay

It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen

You can’t have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can’t get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

3 December 2020 Maria Sharapova

Music is a part of my life all the time – on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

3 December 2020 James Whitcomb Riley

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

3 December 2020 Zhang Ziyi

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

3 December 2020 Isaac Mizrahi

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

3 December 2020 James Weldon Johnson

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

3 December 2020 Moliere

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

3 December 2020 Robert Runcie

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

3 December 2020 Miranda Kerr

Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine even if it’s only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Ellison

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn’t see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

3 December 2020 Robert Ley

Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

3 December 2020 Demetri Martin

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, ‘Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.’

3 December 2020 Gilda Radner

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela

Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

3 December 2020 Fernando Flores

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story – about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

3 December 2020 James Madison

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

3 December 2020 Paulo Coelho

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

3 December 2020 Allen Klein

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

3 December 2020 Tyra Banks

I don’t go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.

3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

3 December 2020 A. E. van Vogt

Chum was a British boy’s weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

3 December 2020 Monica Lewinsky

It was a mutual relationship.

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