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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

3 December 2020 Peter Marshall

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change where we are right, make us easy to live with.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

3 December 2020 Josh McDowell

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

3 December 2020 Tab Hunter

I don’t care whether people like me or dislike me. I’m not on earth to win a popularity contest. I’m here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

3 December 2020 Tarja Halonen

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

3 December 2020 H. G. Wells

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

3 December 2020 Muriel Spark

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

3 December 2020 Roger Moore

Sometimes I’ve had to put myself on a diet.

3 December 2020 Pierre de Coubertin

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution – warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain – are even more deadly here.

3 December 2020 Elena Vesnina

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

3 December 2020 Hugh Laurie

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven’t fallen since.

3 December 2020 John Bruton

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

3 December 2020 Shaun White

Surfers have the most attitude.

3 December 2020 Joe Namath

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

3 December 2020 Gilbert Parker

Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.

3 December 2020 Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.

3 December 2020 John Steinbeck

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

3 December 2020 Stephen Cambone

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

3 December 2020 Maimonides

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

3 December 2020 Imran Khan

If your house is burning, wouldn’t you try and put out the fire?

3 December 2020 Ang Lee

These days I’m mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese – which means my friends.

3 December 2020 Greta Garbo

I want to be alone.

3 December 2020 Edwin Powell Hubble

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

3 December 2020 Margot Kidder

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

3 December 2020 Geraldine Brooks

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

3 December 2020 Malcolm X

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.

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