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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.’

3 December 2020 Donna Brazile

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There’s something wrong with that.

3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

3 December 2020 Emil Ludwig

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

3 December 2020 Michael Ondaatje

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

3 December 2020 Leo Burnett

If you don’t get noticed, you don’t have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

3 December 2020 Jim Rohn

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

3 December 2020 Willie Mays

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.

3 December 2020 Wally Schirra

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

3 December 2020 Walt Disney

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

3 December 2020 John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

3 December 2020 Michael Jordan

I wasn’t really a work conscious type of person.

3 December 2020 Suzanne Fields

There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.

3 December 2020 Charles Dickens

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

3 December 2020 Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

3 December 2020 Tony Hillerman

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

3 December 2020 Demi Lovato

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

3 December 2020 Audrey Hepburn

If I get married, I want to be very married.

3 December 2020 E. M. Forster

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

3 December 2020 Matt Cameron

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn’t happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

3 December 2020 Joe Manchin

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that’s not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

3 December 2020 Francine Prose

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

3 December 2020 Jack Wagner

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

3 December 2020 Elias Canetti

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

3 December 2020 John C. Maxwell

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

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