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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 David Brin

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I’ve had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and I’m not happy to be right in all of those cases.

3 December 2020 Harry Bertoia

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

3 December 2020 Mike Hawkins

If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you’ll still be a part of a dream – only it will be someone else’s.

3 December 2020 Arthur Miller

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

3 December 2020 Helen Reddy

I thought Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I’ve ever read in my life.

3 December 2020 Chris Evans

I’ve managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

3 December 2020 Herbert Read

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

3 December 2020 Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance, it’s toil fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

3 December 2020 Audrey Hepburn

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‘Funny Face’ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

3 December 2020 Bo Derek

’10’ was amazing! I had no career before ’10’ and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

3 December 2020 George McGovern

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

3 December 2020 Dolly Parton

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ’em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

3 December 2020 Josh Gad

It’s weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

3 December 2020 Elayne Boosler

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn’t have that rule when Jesus was born.

3 December 2020 Steven Hatfill

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

3 December 2020 Cobi Jones

As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

3 December 2020 Golda Meir

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

3 December 2020 Giuliana Rancic

If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship.

3 December 2020 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

3 December 2020 Ryunosuke Satoro

Find patience in the breath of life.

3 December 2020 Anne Bronte

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

3 December 2020 Ramakrishna

When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

3 December 2020 Morris West

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

3 December 2020 Vivienne Westwood

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

3 December 2020 Chief Joseph

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

3 December 2020 C. Northcote Parkinson

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

3 December 2020 Elmer Davis

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

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