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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

3 December 2020 Joe Frazier

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

3 December 2020 Pat Riley

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

3 December 2020 Edwin Louis Cole

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

3 December 2020 Emily Blunt

I had to learn to dance for ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.

3 December 2020 Sheryl Swoopes

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

3 December 2020 Robin Wright Penn

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

3 December 2020 Edwin Markham

There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

3 December 2020 Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

3 December 2020 Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

3 December 2020 Edmond H. Fischer

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

3 December 2020 Mark Haddon

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

3 December 2020 Daniel Inouye

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

3 December 2020 Adam Carolla

All’s the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

3 December 2020 Janet Jackson

I have a very strong family.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

3 December 2020 Max Frisch

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it’s a piece of humbug.

3 December 2020 Peter Singer

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

3 December 2020 Gloria Allred

I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

3 December 2020 Denis Diderot

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.

3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don’t care how many units I sell.

3 December 2020 Maria Montessori

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

3 December 2020 Jerry Lewis

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don’t get into it because I do comedy already.

3 December 2020 Mike Tyson

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

3 December 2020 Betty White

I’m not what you might call sexy, but I’m romantic. Let’s put it that way.

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