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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ellie Kemper

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in ‘The Sound of Music.’

3 December 2020 John Sebastian

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

3 December 2020 Nicole Scherzinger

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you’re not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.

3 December 2020 Kevin Rollins

There would not be enough talent that’s educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we’ve put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

3 December 2020 Anatole France

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

3 December 2020 Franklin P. Adams

There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important.

3 December 2020 Paul Oakenfold

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it’s done that. It’s got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

3 December 2020 Alfred Molina

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn’t Steve McQueen or Robert Redford – it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

3 December 2020 Kin Hubbard

I don’t look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

3 December 2020 John Milton

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

3 December 2020 Fulton J. Sheen

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

3 December 2020 Michael Jackson

I just wish I could understand my father.

3 December 2020 Eva Herzigova

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.

3 December 2020 Lionel Trilling

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

3 December 2020 Annie Lennox

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

3 December 2020 Florence Nightingale

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

3 December 2020 Samuel Horsley

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

3 December 2020 Wayne Dyer

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

3 December 2020 Ralph Stanley

I’ve done it all. I’m thankful and proud of what I’ve accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

3 December 2020 Linus Torvalds

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

3 December 2020 Jerry Falwell

If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.

3 December 2020 Mia Hamm

I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I’m constantly re-evaluating how I’m doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it’s as a mom or taking care of myself.

3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

3 December 2020 Rita Dove

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

3 December 2020 Mireille Enos

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

3 December 2020 J. Paul Getty

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

3 December 2020 Paul Valery

Power without abuse loses its charm.

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