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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Tom G. Palmer

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

3 December 2020 Vivienne Westwood

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

3 December 2020 Gro Harlem Brundtland

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat… The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

3 December 2020 William Falconer

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

White… is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

3 December 2020 Natalie Wood

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

3 December 2020 Dexter Gordon

Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

3 December 2020 Holly Near

The women’s movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we’ll never be able to count.

3 December 2020 James Lovelock

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

3 December 2020 Ice Cube

There’s never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

3 December 2020 Mortimer Adler

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

3 December 2020 Jean Dujardin

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

3 December 2020 Schuyler Colfax

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

3 December 2020 Norman Mailer

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

3 December 2020 Alexander Herzen

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

3 December 2020 Diane von Furstenberg

I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it… it all depends on who I travel with.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

3 December 2020 David Sedaris

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

3 December 2020 George Jean Nathan

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

3 December 2020 Brian Mulroney

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

3 December 2020 Helen Rowland

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman’s punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

3 December 2020 Billy Ray Cyrus

I am and always will be a sinner. But that’s the beautiful thing about Jesus. I’ll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I’m not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I’m holier than thou, ’cause I’m not!

3 December 2020 Ron Paul

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

3 December 2020 Valentino Rossi

Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

3 December 2020 Martha Beck

In one century, we’ve added 28 years to our average life span – a change so rapid that our brains couldn’t possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

3 December 2020 Talib Kweli

You know, I’ve learned a lot from every person I’ve collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I’ve taken something important away from every experience.

3 December 2020 Taylor Swift

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‘CSI’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ episodes with pints of ice cream.

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