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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

3 December 2020 Jack Kerouac

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

3 December 2020 Will Smith

I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

3 December 2020 Joseph A. Schumpeter

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

3 December 2020 Charles Kingsley

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

3 December 2020 Peter Singer

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

3 December 2020 John Thune

Let’s not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

3 December 2020 Confucius

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

3 December 2020 Sherri Shepherd

My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn’t sound romantic, but otherwise it won’t get done.

3 December 2020 Georges Braque

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

3 December 2020 William Burroughs

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

3 December 2020 C. L. R. James

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

3 December 2020 Glenn Beck

What I’m trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism – the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.

3 December 2020 Greta Scacchi

I want to come across as a positive person.

3 December 2020 Julius Charles Hare

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

3 December 2020 Moon Unit Zappa

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you’re going to take a shower, do it with whomever you’re dating so you don’t waste water and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody’s going to want one.

3 December 2020 Michael Novak

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

3 December 2020 Sanjay Dutt

I don’t know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It’s really sad.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

3 December 2020 Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

3 December 2020 John Steinbeck

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

3 December 2020 Chaz Bono

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay… Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

3 December 2020 Robert Byrne

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

3 December 2020 Michael Caine

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.

3 December 2020 Beau Bridges

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

3 December 2020 Eileen Caddy

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

3 December 2020 Sienna Miller

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don’t have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can’t obsess about it.

3 December 2020 Issey Miyake

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

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