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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

3 December 2020 Gerald R. Ford

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

3 December 2020 Jean Paul

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

3 December 2020 Lord Byron

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

3 December 2020 Robin Williams

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn’t work!

3 December 2020 James Cash Penney

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance.

3 December 2020 Doris Lessing

What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

3 December 2020 Michael Sheen

I’m a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy – not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar

Life should be great rather than long.

3 December 2020 Jayma Mays

I don’t remember my dreams. I’m one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.

3 December 2020 Betty Hill

And we turned off and 30 miles south they’re standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.

3 December 2020 Isadora Duncan

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

3 December 2020 Gus Van Sant

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

3 December 2020 Tom Landry

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.

3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe

I’ve had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers

Part of Obama’s persona is self-reliance. He’s calm he’s cool he’s self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton’s sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

3 December 2020 Akhenaton

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

3 December 2020 Franz Kafka

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis

Man lives by imagination.

3 December 2020 Drew Barrymore

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn’t want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

3 December 2020 Tom Brady

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

3 December 2020 Ludacris

My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer

Yes, people pull the trigger – but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

3 December 2020 Louis Farrakhan

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

3 December 2020 Freeman Thomas

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

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