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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Henrietta Szold

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

3 December 2020 Mary Gordon

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

3 December 2020 Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

3 December 2020 Joe Nichols

Everything that’s cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, ‘We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!’

3 December 2020 Sidney Sheldon

If there is any secret to my success, I think it’s that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

3 December 2020 Celine Dion

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

Get mad, then get over it.

3 December 2020 Alvar N. C. de Vaca

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

3 December 2020 Xun Zi

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

3 December 2020 Jill Clayburgh

There was just this amazing individuality. It’s just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

3 December 2020 Lord Salisbury

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

3 December 2020 William Westmoreland

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

3 December 2020 Richard Rogers

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

3 December 2020 Miguel Angel Ruiz

Always do your best.

3 December 2020 John Dryden

Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.

3 December 2020 Dana Plato

I’m open-minded. I don’t consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I’ve had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

3 December 2020 Phyllis Diller

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

3 December 2020 Jiddu Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

3 December 2020 John Muir

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

3 December 2020 Nick Rahall

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

3 December 2020 David Hume

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

3 December 2020 Josh McDowell

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn’t, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God’s Son.

3 December 2020 Leonardo DiCaprio

I just want to keep doing what I’m doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

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