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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury

Everything is generated through your own will power.

3 December 2020 Anais Nin

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

3 December 2020 H. G. Bohn

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

3 December 2020 Octavio Paz

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.

3 December 2020 Mencius

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

3 December 2020 Lewis B. Smedes

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

3 December 2020 Lukas Haas

It’s cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

3 December 2020 Guy Lafleur

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers’ it’s a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

Endurance is patience concentrated.

3 December 2020 Mae West

It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.

3 December 2020 Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

3 December 2020 Angela Merkel

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

3 December 2020 William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

3 December 2020 Robbie Coltrane

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

3 December 2020 Ed Turner

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein

Romance is everything.

3 December 2020 Carlos Castenada

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father’s hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

3 December 2020 Alexander Graham Bell

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

3 December 2020 Harri Holkeri

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

3 December 2020 Tracy K. Smith

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

3 December 2020 Nate Silver

People still don’t appreciate how ephemeral success is.

3 December 2020 Busy Philipps

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don’t even really watch their TV anymore.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

3 December 2020 Meister Eckhart

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

3 December 2020 Tony Campolo

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I’ve got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

3 December 2020 Anatole France

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

3 December 2020 Samuel Smiles

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

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