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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

3 December 2020 Johann Georg Hamann

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

3 December 2020 Hideki Tojo

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

3 December 2020 Denis Waitley

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us concentrate our energy.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

3 December 2020 Groucho Marx

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

3 December 2020 Anita Diament

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

3 December 2020 John Ratzenberger

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they’d let me know right away.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

3 December 2020 Jenny Holzer

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

3 December 2020 Peter McWilliams

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

3 December 2020 Ariel Sharon

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

3 December 2020 Anna Freud

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

3 December 2020 Doug Coupland

If God drives a car, He’d drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

3 December 2020 Tom Stoppard

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

3 December 2020 Zig Ziglar

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

3 December 2020 Tom Peters

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.

3 December 2020 Dennis Miller

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

3 December 2020 Puff Daddy

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books I have had fans send me birthday cakes… sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

3 December 2020 Peter Shilton

I’m still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

3 December 2020 Eric Liu

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the ’04 elections is that politics is a word game.

3 December 2020 Ralph Nader

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

3 December 2020 Jim Davis

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

3 December 2020 John Muir

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

3 December 2020 Storm Jameson

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

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