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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Augustus Hare

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

3 December 2020 Jacob Bronowski

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

3 December 2020 Alfred Adler

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

3 December 2020 Mahalia Jackson

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

3 December 2020 Gertrude Jekyll

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

3 December 2020 Daniel Craig

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I’m one of the least competitive people you’ll ever meet. Except with myself.

3 December 2020 Frank Bruno

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker… anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

3 December 2020 Charles Foster Bass

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

3 December 2020 Franz Kafka

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

3 December 2020 Norm Dicks

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly

An organization’s reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

3 December 2020 Dolph Lundgren

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

3 December 2020 Gilbert Parker

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.

3 December 2020 Denis Waitley

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

3 December 2020 Brian Clough

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

3 December 2020 Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me. It’s his job.

3 December 2020 Kristen Wiig

With improv, it’s a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

3 December 2020 Walt Disney

You can’t just let nature run wild.

3 December 2020 Elia Kazan

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.

3 December 2020 Mark Helprin

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

3 December 2020 Rita Rudner

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don’t even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

3 December 2020 Pratibha Patil

This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post… the institution of President.

3 December 2020 Amy Lee

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn’t, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don’t think any of my relatives are surprised.

3 December 2020 Seann William Scott

I’m cool with the way I look, I’m not an ugly dog, but I don’t see myself as a stud or anything.

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