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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Gerry Cooney

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

3 December 2020 Brendan Francis

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

3 December 2020 Ann Landers

The Lord gave us two ends – one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

3 December 2020 Philip Seymour Hoffman

People aren’t going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

3 December 2020 Suzanne Vega

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver’s license became about much more than a divorced woman’s learning to drive for the first time.

3 December 2020 Vanessa Paradis

I don’t have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

3 December 2020 Christina Ricci

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Davis

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn’t give my lyrics, and it’s all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It’s funny.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Evil gains work their punishment.

3 December 2020 Ethan Suplee

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren’t. I’ve opted for the road of happiness and long life.

3 December 2020 William Temple

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards

I can’t turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I’m sick to death of me.

3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

3 December 2020 George Foreman

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

3 December 2020 Adam Rickitt

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

3 December 2020 Paula Danziger

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can’t write a message book you just tell the best story you know how to tell.

3 December 2020 Bobby Fischer

I felt that chess… is a science in the form of a game… I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

3 December 2020 Bernard Baruch

Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.

3 December 2020 Paul McCartney

Where I come from, you don’t really talk about how much you’re earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I’m certainly not going to tell the world. I’m doing well.

3 December 2020 Bruno Bettelheim

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one’s children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

3 December 2020 Tony Hillerman

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes’ cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

3 December 2020 Rupert Holmes

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

3 December 2020 Steven Tyler

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

3 December 2020 Walter Savage Landor

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.

3 December 2020 Janice Dickinson

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

3 December 2020 Josh Hopkins

It’s just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

3 December 2020 Billy Ocean

Success can create more madness than happiness.

3 December 2020 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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