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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

3 December 2020 Gregory Bateson

All experience is subjective.

3 December 2020 Maya Lin

Art is very tricky because it’s what you do for yourself. It’s much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

3 December 2020 Anna Lindh

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

3 December 2020 Frank Robinson

I haven’t seen a player in this game, as long as I’ve been in it, that can’t be pitched to… Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

3 December 2020 Felix Baumgartner

I’ve done a lot of things in a business where you’re lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I’ll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

3 December 2020 Michael Kinsley

The logic is often far-fetched – how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? – and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic

Even though now I’m pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I’m very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I’m more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

3 December 2020 Denis Waitley

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

3 December 2020 Guy Forget

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O’Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote ‘Jagged Little Pill.’

3 December 2020 Eliphas Levi

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

3 December 2020 Arthur Hiller

We’d be working in our motel room through the night, and I’d come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he’d start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

3 December 2020 William Sanderson

The only consistent hobby I’ve had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I’m looking for the next job.

3 December 2020 Elvis Presley

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

3 December 2020 Edward Young

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

3 December 2020 Georg Buchner

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

3 December 2020 Michael Phelps

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Bratt

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

3 December 2020 Virginia Foxx

From a parent’s right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

3 December 2020 Hans-Georg Gadamer

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

3 December 2020 Rose Kennedy

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

3 December 2020 Arizona Muse

I don’t have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.

3 December 2020 Natalie Portman

I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

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