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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

3 December 2020 Alan Rickman

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

3 December 2020 Olivia Munn

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That’s it. That’s the only requirement.

3 December 2020 Albert Ellis

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

3 December 2020 Julia Ward Howe

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

3 December 2020 Natalie Goldberg

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

3 December 2020 Leonard Nimoy

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

3 December 2020 Steve Blake

I’m pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I’ll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative fight, flee – or laugh.

3 December 2020 Taylor Lautner

I’ve always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I’m a very physical person. I’ve always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

3 December 2020 Jay Alan Sekulow

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

3 December 2020 Billy Corgan

There’s nothing wrong with technology. It’s when technology is the story and not the artist, that’s the problem.

3 December 2020 Dennis Prager

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

3 December 2020 Ayn Rand

Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

3 December 2020 Thomas Mann

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

3 December 2020 Harriet Ann Jacobs

But to the slave mother New Year’s day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

3 December 2020 Montgomery Clift

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

3 December 2020 David Knopfler

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

3 December 2020 Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about money.

3 December 2020 Miuccia Prada

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men’s clothes.

3 December 2020 Todd McFarlane

I’m a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

3 December 2020 William Congreve

No, I’m no enemy to learning it hurts not me.

3 December 2020 Patti Stanger

On both ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Bachelorette,’ it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, ‘Let’s date.’ Everyone knows those aren’t the same things.

3 December 2020 Sanjay Dutt

As an actor, I’ve grown considerably. It’s taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I’ve really opened up a lot.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

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