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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 David Livingstone

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

3 December 2020 Charlotte Davis Kasl

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

3 December 2020 Jose Ortega y Gasset

An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

3 December 2020 Ralph Bakshi

One of the best animated films I’ve seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn’t crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan’s face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

3 December 2020 Peter Guber

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

3 December 2020 Robert Shea

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

3 December 2020 Susan Orlean

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

3 December 2020 Angie Stone

I think people’s perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it’s not about money.

3 December 2020 Kevin O'Leary

I’m not a tough guy. I’m just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can’t deal with it, too bad.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

3 December 2020 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

3 December 2020 Gary Locke

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

3 December 2020 Natalie Portman

When a guy tells me I’m cute, it’s not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

3 December 2020 Harry Stack Sullivan

What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.

3 December 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

3 December 2020 James Baldwin

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

3 December 2020 Stephen Harper

The Leader of the Opposition’s constitutional obligation – the obligation to Parliament – it’s the reason we did the merger! – is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

3 December 2020 Howard Hodgkin

I’m vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you’d get any feedback.

3 December 2020 Queen Victoria

Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

3 December 2020 Gabriela Sabatini

It’s amazing, it doesn’t feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

3 December 2020 Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

3 December 2020 Josh Billings

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain’t got.

3 December 2020 Barbara Bush

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

3 December 2020 John Goodman

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

3 December 2020 Angela Kinsey

Now that I’m a mom, I’m way more laid back. If you come into my house, don’t look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.

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