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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Don Rickles

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

3 December 2020 Loretta Young

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

3 December 2020 Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

3 December 2020 Gary Bauer

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded – in part because it impedes the government’s ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.

3 December 2020 Edmund Waller

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

3 December 2020 Charles Frazier

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in ‘Black Mask’ magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

3 December 2020 Gustavo Dudamel

I love to travel, but sometimes it’s nice to stay in one place.

3 December 2020 George Gurdjieff

Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

3 December 2020 Robert Shea

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out – or worse.

3 December 2020 Anne Sullivan

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

3 December 2020 Madame de Stael

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

3 December 2020 Peter L. Bergen

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

3 December 2020 David Mamet

You know, young actors say all the time, ‘Should I use my own life experience?’ And my response is, ‘What choice do you have?’

3 December 2020 Russell Baker

Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

3 December 2020 James Laughlin

I think there’s no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

3 December 2020 Dyan Cannon

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don’t think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

3 December 2020 Mitch McConnell

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

3 December 2020 Sydney J. Harris

The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

3 December 2020 Lech Walesa

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

3 December 2020 Danielle Steel

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.

3 December 2020 Walt Whitman

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

3 December 2020 Chuck Tanner

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

3 December 2020 Anne Sullivan Macy

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

3 December 2020 Adam Clarke

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

3 December 2020 Orson Pratt

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

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