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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Rudyard Kipling

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’

3 December 2020 Paz de la Huerta

I’ve learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

3 December 2020 Matthew Arnold

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

3 December 2020 Mike Huckabee

Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I’ve been very passionate about since the ’70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

3 December 2020 Renee Olstead

If you’re picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren’t going to stay in touch after graduation.

3 December 2020 Saint Francis de Sales

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

3 December 2020 Slick Rick

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

3 December 2020 Christine Lahti

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn’t want money. I didn’t care about fame.

3 December 2020 Gore Vidal

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.

3 December 2020 Ron Kind

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

3 December 2020 Patricia Clarkson

You’re always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

3 December 2020 Paul Klee

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

3 December 2020 Nina Bawden

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

3 December 2020 Dave Matthews

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There’s incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

3 December 2020 E. Stanley Jones

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

3 December 2020 Herbert Read

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

3 December 2020 Gifford Pinchot

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

3 December 2020 Walt Disney

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

3 December 2020 Jean Genet

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

3 December 2020 Loretta Young

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that’s what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

3 December 2020 Godfrey Reggio

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

3 December 2020 King George V

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

3 December 2020 Serj Tankian

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

3 December 2020 Mary Cheney

I didn’t know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

3 December 2020 A. C. Benson

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

3 December 2020 Hannah More

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

3 December 2020 Jacques Yves Cousteau

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

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