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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

3 December 2020 Cliff Stearns

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

3 December 2020 Thomas J. Watson

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

3 December 2020 Ron Chernow

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They’ve lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

3 December 2020 Peter Tosh

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?

3 December 2020 Peter Fonda

I don’t trust anybody who didn’t inhale.

3 December 2020 Davy Crockett

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

3 December 2020 Bertolt Brecht

Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.

3 December 2020 Damian Lewis

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

3 December 2020 Bob Ney

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

3 December 2020 Emmitt Smith

I don’t have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don’t have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

3 December 2020 Lindsay Wagner

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

3 December 2020 Thom Mayne

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

3 December 2020 Danica Patrick

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

3 December 2020 Jane Goodall

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

3 December 2020 David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

3 December 2020 Gwyneth Paltrow

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it’s our business.

3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

3 December 2020 Luc de Clapiers

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

3 December 2020 Mike Myers

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

3 December 2020 Gates McFadden

I love a lot of things, and I’m pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I’d be an obsessive hairdresser.

3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

My Dad used to tell us: ‘En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos’ ‘In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.’

3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco

Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

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