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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley

Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

3 December 2020 John Webster

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

3 December 2020 Brett Somers

You know, I’m a television personality. It’s not like I’m a famous hooker or something!

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

3 December 2020 Bill Frist

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

3 December 2020 Heston Blumenthal

And I like asking questions, to keep learning people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

3 December 2020 Ralph Nader

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

3 December 2020 Ed Smith

The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.

3 December 2020 Christopher Morley

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

3 December 2020 Jean Paul Gaultier

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it’s like a party.

3 December 2020 Ofra Haza

I don’t know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.

3 December 2020 Carl Sagan

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

3 December 2020 Tommy Franks

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

3 December 2020 Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

3 December 2020 Tom Stoppard

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn’t wait to be out of education.

3 December 2020 Fran Lebowitz

Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

3 December 2020 Carroll O'Connor

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

3 December 2020 Marianne Williamson

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

3 December 2020 Al Goldstein

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

3 December 2020 Vincent Schiavelli

Your face is your calling card, but you’re not so famous that you can’t go out.

3 December 2020 Jose Manuel Barroso

I’ll put it frankly – Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

3 December 2020 Charles Olson

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

3 December 2020 Henry Charles Carey

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

3 December 2020 Anne Rice

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He’s my teacher. He’s one of my driving forces.

3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

3 December 2020 Emma Watson

I’m very romantic and of course I want to be in love.

3 December 2020 E. B. White

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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