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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 V. S. Naipaul

Africa has no future.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one’s being clever.

3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

3 December 2020 Alistair Darling

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

3 December 2020 Niels Bohr

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

3 December 2020 Vincent Cassel

Cronenberg’s a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don’t know watching his movies. He doesn’t take himself seriously. He’s still reinventing himself.

3 December 2020 Ted Nugent

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

3 December 2020 David Cameron

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain’s success – so for me there’s no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

3 December 2020 Barney Ross

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

3 December 2020 Omar Bongo

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point – if not a commodity – of political groups aiming to rise to power.

3 December 2020 Anthony Michael Hall

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I’ve done in my life is between jobs.

3 December 2020 Marc Jacobs

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they’ve been waiting or whether it’s raining or it’s snowing or whatever.

3 December 2020 Euclid

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

3 December 2020 David Hockney

Shadows sometimes people don’t see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

3 December 2020 Paulo Coelho

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

3 December 2020 Gloria Stuart

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn’t realize it would take so long.

3 December 2020 Louis Farrakhan

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

3 December 2020 Gerard Depardieu

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I’m sure sometimes I’m the woman.

3 December 2020 Gina Gershon

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it’s a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.

3 December 2020 Joel Osteen

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

3 December 2020 Julia Roberts

True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.

3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr.

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

3 December 2020 James Purefoy

I have to travel a lot for work.

3 December 2020 Yann Martel

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally – certainly with my secular background – the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

3 December 2020 Herman Melville

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

3 December 2020 David Mamet

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

3 December 2020 Alan Dershowitz

We don’t have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

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