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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

3 December 2020 Erich Fromm

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

3 December 2020 Laura Riding

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

3 December 2020 John Lennon

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

3 December 2020 Warren Beatty

Organized labor, if they’re doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

3 December 2020 William Collins

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader’s defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

3 December 2020 J. Paul Getty

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

3 December 2020 Ann Curry

People close to me called me ‘Curry in a Hurry.’ I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.

3 December 2020 Tom Brady

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

3 December 2020 Agnetha Faltskog

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn’t keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don’t regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don’t want to go into!

3 December 2020 Mitt Romney

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

3 December 2020 Shepard Smith

We don’t communicate in full sentences anyway. We don’t need all those words.

3 December 2020 Thomas John Watson, Sr.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.

3 December 2020 Allyson Felix

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

3 December 2020 Steven Moffat

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you’ve got playing the leads.

3 December 2020 Edward Eggleston

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

3 December 2020 Tina Turner

I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things.

3 December 2020 Walt Whitman

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

3 December 2020 Whitfield Diffie

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

3 December 2020 Zhuangzi

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

3 December 2020 Tim Holden

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

3 December 2020 Germaine Greer

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

3 December 2020 Ben Folds

Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.

3 December 2020 Shimon Peres

The Jews’ greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We’re a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

3 December 2020 Martha Graham

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

3 December 2020 Barry Switzer

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

3 December 2020 Ivan Reitman

I’ve always been a fan of science fiction films, and I’ve never been able to put my particular spin on it.

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