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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Georg C. Lichtenberg

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

3 December 2020 Mary Gordon

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

3 December 2020 John Hutton

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency – these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

3 December 2020 Richard Savage

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

3 December 2020 James A. Garfield

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.

3 December 2020 Les Brown

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

3 December 2020 Robert Crais

There’s the Hollywood sign there’s Griffith Observatory there’s the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It’s 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.

3 December 2020 Katharine Hepburn

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

3 December 2020 Paul Wellstone

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

3 December 2020 John Cage

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

3 December 2020 Barry Sanders

I really love peace and quiet.

3 December 2020 Bill Hybels

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

3 December 2020 Garrison Keillor

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it’s time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

3 December 2020 Euripides

Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.

3 December 2020 Rahm Emanuel

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

3 December 2020 Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

3 December 2020 Ruth Warrick

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it’s all in good fun, of course.

3 December 2020 Shania Twain

Fortunately, when you’re a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

3 December 2020 Stephen King

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

3 December 2020 David Bromstad

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

3 December 2020 Jerry Rice

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.

3 December 2020 Cat Cora

If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.

3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

3 December 2020 Bill Owens

Leadership is an active role ‘lead’ is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

3 December 2020 Chanakya

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

3 December 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

3 December 2020 Britt Ekland

Generally, I’m a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren’t coming in, I do get depressed.

3 December 2020 Arnold J. Toynbee

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

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