Skip to content
QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter

Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

3 December 2020 F. L. Lucas

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly… in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

3 December 2020 Wilhelm Dilthey

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one’s own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

3 December 2020 Charlie Chaplin

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

3 December 2020 Arthur Rimbaud

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

3 December 2020 Marcel Carne

It’s nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

3 December 2020 Martin Van Buren

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

3 December 2020 Matt LeBlanc

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It’s like nature’s Neosporin.

3 December 2020 Miranda Richardson

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

3 December 2020 Lynn Samuels

Sports is all about money.

3 December 2020 Vince Lombardi

Success demands singleness of purpose.

3 December 2020 Mireille Enos

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

3 December 2020 Hugh Laurie

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

3 December 2020 William Hague

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

3 December 2020 Henry Ford

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

3 December 2020 Eric Alterman

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful ’70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

3 December 2020 Stephen King

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

3 December 2020 Al Goldstein

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

3 December 2020 Garth Brooks

Whatever I do, I hope it’s quality, I hope it’s something that’s class.

3 December 2020 Pope John XXIII

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate – treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn’t be sustainable for me, and that’s what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

3 December 2020 Nate Ruess

My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the ‘Pinkerton’ tour, and ‘Pinkerton’ is the reason why I’m doing this.

3 December 2020 Jenson Button

When you’re in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

3 December 2020 W. Averell Harriman

The war changed everybody’s attitude. We became international almost overnight.

3 December 2020 Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Action conquers fear.

3 December 2020 Scott Weiland

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they’re a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that’s the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

3 December 2020 Peter King

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 … 1,785 1,786 1,787 1,788 1,789 … 1,862 Next Posts»

Tags

age alone amazing art beauty best business change dad death education experience faith fear food freedom funny future god happiness health history home hope knowledge learning marriage mom money morning movies Music Nature Peace Poetry Politics relationship Religion Respect Science Society Success Truth War Women

Recommend Quotes

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Albert Einstein
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Plato
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Mark Twain
  • Aristotle
  • Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Voltaire
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • William Shakespeare
  • Victor Hugo
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Honore de Balzac
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Sophocles
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Alexander Pope
  • Confucius
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Martin Luther
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Charles Dickens
  • Ovid
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Thomas A. Edison
  • Euripides
  • John Lennon
  • Socrates
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Pope John Paul II
  • Paulo Coelho
  • Mother Teresa
  • Baruch Spinoza