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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Walt Whitman

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

3 December 2020 Tom Shadyac

I’m from the Madeleine L’Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there’s a creator who’s behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

3 December 2020 John Mica

They’ve just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there’s a proper time for a pat down, there’s a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

3 December 2020 Dan Gable

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

3 December 2020 John Milius

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about – courage.

3 December 2020 Derek Jeter

My hero’s, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can’t take that from me.

3 December 2020 Samuel Hahnemann

The physician’s highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy – to heal, as it is termed.

3 December 2020 Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

3 December 2020 Leonard Cohen

Success is survival.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

3 December 2020 Edward R. Murrow

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

3 December 2020 Wendell Phillips

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

3 December 2020 Josh Billings

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

3 December 2020 Ellen Page

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

3 December 2020 William Wordsworth

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

3 December 2020 Rick Warren

We’re a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

3 December 2020 Rita Dove

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier

I’ve always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

3 December 2020 Stephen Ambrose

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

3 December 2020 Shemar Moore

Orlando’s a part of me. The next guy’s a part of me. And the next guy’s a part of me. That’s all I’m trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.

3 December 2020 Jerome K. Jerome

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

3 December 2020 Glenn Beck

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I’ve made lots of money making fun of me.

3 December 2020 Carolyn Maloney

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

3 December 2020 Julie Taymor

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

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