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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Stephen Moyer

Even if you know that what you’ll say will hurt a woman’s feelings, I’ve learned that it’s better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.

3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

3 December 2020 Virgil Goode

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.

3 December 2020 Malcolm X

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

3 December 2020 Jai Rodriguez

I’ve been looking forward to doing an album, but it’s really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

3 December 2020 Ruth Bernhard

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

3 December 2020 Seamus Heaney

But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

3 December 2020 Penelope Spheeris

This generation has given up on growth. They’re just hoping for survival.

3 December 2020 Gerard Manley Hopkins

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

3 December 2020 Leonard Bernstein

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

3 December 2020 Graham Parker

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

3 December 2020 Queen Rania of Jordan

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

3 December 2020 William S. Burroughs

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

Tears are the silent language of grief.

3 December 2020 Tommy Lee Jones

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

3 December 2020 Jim Rohn

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

3 December 2020 Helmut Jahn

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

3 December 2020 Shirley MacLaine

I can’t advise any of the young ones, because I don’t know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything – there’s a real problem.

3 December 2020 Leo Burnett

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

3 December 2020 Liz Phair

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

3 December 2020 John Scarlett

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Scott Latourette

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

3 December 2020 Carroll Quigley

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

3 December 2020 Ina Garten

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that’s what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

3 December 2020 Janice Dickinson

Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn’t even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn’t deserve.

3 December 2020 Robert M. Hutchins

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

3 December 2020 Nigel Mansell

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don’t believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It’s not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

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