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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 William Proxmire

The last few years have been my happiest. I’m happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don’t feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

3 December 2020 Sugar Ray Leonard

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

3 December 2020 Simone de Beauvoir

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority.

3 December 2020 William Ellery Channing

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

3 December 2020 Sylvia Browne

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

3 December 2020 Franklin P. Jones

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.

3 December 2020 John Stamos

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

3 December 2020 Howard Gardner

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don’t seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn’t have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

3 December 2020 Washington Irving

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Anger

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer – by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don’t seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

3 December 2020 Linda Evans

If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Olsen

Well, I’d love to work with Kate Winslet – she’s amazing.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Bennett

My first three years of high school, I wasn’t that cool.

3 December 2020 William Wordsworth

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

3 December 2020 Christian Nestell Bovee

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

3 December 2020 John Shelby Spong

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

3 December 2020 Julia Sweeney

Well, you can’t be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

3 December 2020 Wesley Snipes

I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.

3 December 2020 Melanie Fiona

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing – that’s really inspiring to me and it’s influenced me in a positive way.

3 December 2020 Vanessa Paradis

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it’s making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

3 December 2020 Henry Cabot Lodge

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower

War settles nothing.

3 December 2020 Julien Green

A child’s fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

3 December 2020 Annie Dillard

It’s a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

3 December 2020 Jeremy London

I’ve never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

3 December 2020 Buddha

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

3 December 2020 Charles Eames

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

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