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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

3 December 2020 Jessica Savitch

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Schiller

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

3 December 2020 Christopher Atkins

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

3 December 2020 Norman Borlaug

Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.

3 December 2020 Robert Redford

It’s an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

3 December 2020 Marianne Williamson

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

3 December 2020 Donald Berwick

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must – must – redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

3 December 2020 Abraham Maslow

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

3 December 2020 Shaquille O'Neal

I’ve been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

3 December 2020 Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

3 December 2020 Ian Botham

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

3 December 2020 Mike Huckabee

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that’s broken.

3 December 2020 Ernest Rutherford

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

3 December 2020 Bette Davis

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

3 December 2020 Norman Granz

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

3 December 2020 Charles Bukowski

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

3 December 2020 Suze Orman

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier

What does it mean to not be alone? I’ve approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

3 December 2020 Lil Wayne

I know it’s an experience that I need to have if God’s putting me through it.

3 December 2020 Peter Pace

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

3 December 2020 Heidi Klum

In my job, people tell you that all the time: ‘This shoot was great. You look amazing.’ But you never know what they say when you turn away.

3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

3 December 2020 Albert Brooks

I’ve been to many funerals of funny people, and they’re some of the funniest days you’ll ever have, because the emotions run high.

3 December 2020 Tony Campolo

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable – it won’t be just like the past.

3 December 2020 Oriana Fallaci

In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

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