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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Wilhelm Keitel

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

3 December 2020 Zach Braff

In theater or movies you see either ‘I’m religious’ or ‘I’m an atheist.’ I’ve never seen too much discussion of ‘I believe there’s a higher power but I’m hesitant to reach out to him because I don’t know if I’m worthy of his attention.’

3 December 2020 Martha Beck

Whether you’ve seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

3 December 2020 Annie Leibovitz

You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

3 December 2020 Willie Stargell

That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

3 December 2020 Leah Remini

I used to do skits for my mom… and I was always entertaining as a kid.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

3 December 2020 Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can’t meet the demands of being a modern society.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

3 December 2020 Sarah Palin

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

3 December 2020 David Yates

I like humor.

3 December 2020 Kathleen Blanco

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

3 December 2020 Karl Rove

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

3 December 2020 Rainer Maria Rilke

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

3 December 2020 Karen Thompson Walker

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination… a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there’s still time to influence how that future will play out.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

3 December 2020 Billy Joel

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

3 December 2020 Horace

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

3 December 2020 Ang Lee

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

3 December 2020 Li Peng

Comrade Deng Xiaoping – along with other party elders – gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding

I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you’d think it’d be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it’s quite comforting.

3 December 2020 Michael Reagan

I think he would have been proud and smiling… when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

3 December 2020 Daniel Defoe

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

3 December 2020 Robert Walpole

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

3 December 2020 Anne Tyler

My family can always tell when I’m well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

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