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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Abraham Cahan

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

3 December 2020 Kaley Cuoco

I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that’s to my parents’ credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I’m very happy with what has happened so far.

3 December 2020 Louis Armstrong

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

3 December 2020 Florence Griffith Joyner

I couldn’t wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom’s stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

3 December 2020 Norah Jones

I don’t actually have a lot of discipline. I’ve worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

3 December 2020 Joseph Needham

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

3 December 2020 Franklin Pierce

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

3 December 2020 Stephen Sprouse

But after the time there I’d had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn’t last very long.

3 December 2020 Mark Hoppus

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

3 December 2020 Kid Cudi

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

3 December 2020 John Wayne

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

3 December 2020 Shailene Woodley

I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are struggling with something. I think it’s just the juxtaposition to my incredibly happy, positive demeanor.

3 December 2020 Donna Leon

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

3 December 2020 Michael Burgess

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature hates calculators.

3 December 2020 John Updike

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

3 December 2020 William Barclay

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

3 December 2020 Joyce Carol Oates

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you’re not aware of that when you’re a child, the whole tradition is lost.

3 December 2020 Shaquille O'Neal

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

3 December 2020 Benito Mussolini

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

3 December 2020 Les Dawson

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said ‘Are you going to help?’ I said ‘No, six should be enough.’

3 December 2020 George Miller

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

3 December 2020 Reese Witherspoon

It’s funny that it all becomes about clothes. It’s bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it’s all about your dress. You can’t get away from it.

3 December 2020 Celine Dion

I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you’re not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.

3 December 2020 Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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