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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jean Racine

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

3 December 2020 Jennie Garth

I’m one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.

3 December 2020 John Ashbery

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

3 December 2020 Phyllis Schlafly

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

3 December 2020 Sarojini Naidu

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

3 December 2020 Thomas Menino

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

3 December 2020 Max Lerner

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

3 December 2020 E. L. Doctorow

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

3 December 2020 Angelina Grimke

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

3 December 2020 Lydia M. Child

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

3 December 2020 Johnny Carson

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

3 December 2020 Michael Chertoff

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don’t want to put them in a flood plain, because if there’s another flood, you’re going to lose the mobile home.

3 December 2020 Barbara de Angelis

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

3 December 2020 Sam Shepard

Sides are being divided now. It’s very obvious. So if you’re on the other side of the fence, you’re suddenly anti-American. It’s breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

3 December 2020 Maurice Strong

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

3 December 2020 Diane Kruger

I have three goddaughters – I’m not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children – but I try.

3 December 2020 Paul Ryan

We believe, as our founders did, that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

3 December 2020 Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

3 December 2020 Kesha

My music is fun, kind of cheeky.

3 December 2020 Jeffrey Archer

I’m not taking any interest in politics. I’m not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

3 December 2020 George Papandreou

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

3 December 2020 Derek Jeter

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.

3 December 2020 Alexander Payne

Even if we die at 100, we’re still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There’s a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I’m not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

3 December 2020 Ellen G. White

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

3 December 2020 James Hillman

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What’s wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

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