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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Al Lewis

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can’t. It’s against the law of nature.

3 December 2020 Kelly Preston

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

3 December 2020 Giorgos Seferis

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.

3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

3 December 2020 Naomi Campbell

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth George

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

3 December 2020 Marguerite Gardiner

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Irons

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I’m probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

3 December 2020 Bertolt Brecht

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

3 December 2020 Mikhail Bakunin

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

3 December 2020 Stevie Ray Vaughan

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.

3 December 2020 Katie Price

I know I will die in a car crash.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

3 December 2020 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

3 December 2020 Erich Fromm

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

3 December 2020 Emma Watson

People don’t really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating there’s no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.

3 December 2020 Christopher Walken

Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He’s the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

3 December 2020 Richard Bach

True love stories never have endings.

3 December 2020 Meister Eckhart

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

3 December 2020 Hermann Broch

What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

3 December 2020 William Cobbett

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

3 December 2020 Toni Braxton

Dating is different when you get older. You’re not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

3 December 2020 Brendan Francis

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

3 December 2020 Hilary Swank

I don’t think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it’s our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

3 December 2020 David Wilkerson

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don’t have the patience to learn.

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