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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks

Follow your passion. Nothing – not wealth, success, accolades or fame – is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.

3 December 2020 Abraham Maslow

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

3 December 2020 Leona Lewis

I’m a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

3 December 2020 Christian Louboutin

I mean, the shoe – there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it’s a movement. Clothes – it’s a different story. There are a million things I’d rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

3 December 2020 Erskine Bowles

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

3 December 2020 Josh Henderson

If I’m in a relationship, I’m 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that’s just something I thoroughly enjoy and it gives me a lot of pleasure. I just haven’t found that right girl yet.

3 December 2020 David Wells

In my whole career, I’ve never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There’s so many teams that are involved. You’ve got to smile because we’re in it.

3 December 2020 Brendan Fehr

When you get pure joy out of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’ or ‘seeing,’ that’s when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

3 December 2020 Edward James Olmos

Education is a vacine for violence.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

3 December 2020 James Buchanan

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

3 December 2020 Lawrence Summers

You can’t have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

3 December 2020 John Cusack

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

3 December 2020 Helen Rowland

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

3 December 2020 Mark Strand

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet’s personality.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

3 December 2020 Bjork

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I’d rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

3 December 2020 Max Eastman

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

3 December 2020 Roy Barnes

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

3 December 2020 Loretta Young

Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.

3 December 2020 Margaret Walker

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

3 December 2020 Richard M. Helms

Yes we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.

3 December 2020 Martin Charnin

You’re never fully dressed without a smile.

3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

3 December 2020 George Farquhar

Those who know the least obey the best.

3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don’t see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven’t recorded it.

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