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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

3 December 2020 John Dewey

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

3 December 2020 Kelly Clarkson

I’ve always been about less government.

3 December 2020 Carol P. Christ

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

3 December 2020 Gerald Scarfe

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don’t want to be in it.

3 December 2020 Alyssa Milano

The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.

3 December 2020 Stokely Carmichael

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

3 December 2020 Reese Hoffa

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

3 December 2020 Alfred Adler

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

3 December 2020 Beverly Cleary

I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

3 December 2020 Reba McEntire

I’ve got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody’s looking.

3 December 2020 William Blake

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

3 December 2020 Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

3 December 2020 James A. Garfield

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

3 December 2020 Henry Kravis

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won’t crumble.

3 December 2020 Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

3 December 2020 Wendell Berry

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

3 December 2020 Gerald R. Ford

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

3 December 2020 Woody Allen

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

3 December 2020 Lawrence Kasdan

What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

3 December 2020 John Nelson Darby

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

3 December 2020 Wilson Mizner

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you’re in.

3 December 2020 Augustus Hare

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein

Every time I do a movie like ‘Finding Neverland’ or ‘Chocolat’ or ‘Shakespeare’ in Love,’ we deal with the creative process, but there’s humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

3 December 2020 Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

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