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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Katherine Anne Porter

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own even more, one’s own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

3 December 2020 Katie Couric

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it’s a very different animal. You know, they’re running around, they’re getting their kids ready for school, they’re probably doing eight million things, they’re brushing their teeth.

3 December 2020 Stone Gossard

It’s a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn’t find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

3 December 2020 John N. Mitchell

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

3 December 2020 Thomas Bulfinch

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

3 December 2020 George Henry Lewes

The only cure for grief is action.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

3 December 2020 Edgar Rice Burroghs

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

3 December 2020 Epictetus

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

3 December 2020 Bill Nighy

When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.

3 December 2020 Tom Colicchio

There’s a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn’t matter if you’re down south, up north in Maine, if you’re out west in Portland or Seattle.

3 December 2020 Roger Daltrey

I love Sell Out, I think it’s great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It’s got humor, great songs, irony.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

3 December 2020 Steve Prefontaine

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

3 December 2020 Alexander McCall Smith

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

3 December 2020 Anne Stevenson

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

3 December 2020 Robert Byrne

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

3 December 2020 Dannii Minogue

Since I’ve been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it’s really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

3 December 2020 Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

3 December 2020 Marion Jones

My father wasn’t really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.

3 December 2020 Herbert Simon

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

3 December 2020 Vanessa Hudgens

I don’t go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

3 December 2020 Seth Green

I was never famous as a kid. That’s the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn’t famous as a kid.

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