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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Robert Mueller

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Olsen

I get way too much happiness from good food.

3 December 2020 Edith Wharton

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.

3 December 2020 Louis D. Brandeis

Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

3 December 2020 Charles Ives

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

3 December 2020 Denis Waitley

Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

3 December 2020 Carol P. Christ

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

3 December 2020 John Muir

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

3 December 2020 Billy Joel

I’m a history nut.

3 December 2020 James Madison

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

3 December 2020 Ursula Andress

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

3 December 2020 Danielle Steel

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

3 December 2020 Dick Morris

‘Yes’ is a far more potent word than ‘no’ in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

3 December 2020 Hugh Laurie

I don’t have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, ‘Nailed that one.’ But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

3 December 2020 Sienna Miller

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Carr

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

3 December 2020 Jacques Yves Cousteau

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

3 December 2020 Cher

I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’

3 December 2020 Miguel de Unamuno

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

3 December 2020 O. Henry

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.

3 December 2020 Al Gore

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Branagh

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people’s work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.

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