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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ron Paul

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

3 December 2020 Fiona Apple

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

3 December 2020 Vito Fossella

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

3 December 2020 Jay Chiat

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

3 December 2020 Tori Amos

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the ’60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.

3 December 2020 Rachel Corrie

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.

3 December 2020 Andrew Cuomo

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that’s what I’m doing.

3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can’t be. It can only be a channel.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

3 December 2020 John Sexton

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

3 December 2020 William Hague

Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.

3 December 2020 Joan Baez

If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Taylor

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

3 December 2020 Rowan Williams

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can’t do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

3 December 2020 Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

3 December 2020 TobyMac

I’m not going to put out a Christmas CD until it’s coming out of me naturally.

3 December 2020 Josiah Royce

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

3 December 2020 Jenny McCarthy

You totally value and respect your body as you get older.

3 December 2020 Danny Kaye

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

3 December 2020 Mehmet Oz

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we’ve changed its nature.

3 December 2020 Andy Murray

I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

3 December 2020 Dante Hall

Sports are not for everyone.

3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

3 December 2020 Bono

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

3 December 2020 A. N. Wilson

I had lost faith in biography.

3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America’s energy problems never give up.

3 December 2020 Harlan Coben

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer

I’m less worried about accomplishment – as younger people always can’t help but be – and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

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