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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 John Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

3 December 2020 Edward Dowden

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

3 December 2020 Reynolds Price

The older I’ve got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

3 December 2020 Delta Burke

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don’t, it’s just real hard to get through the day, and I’ll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

3 December 2020 Lois Capps

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

3 December 2020 Adam Weishaupt

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

3 December 2020 Felix Adler

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

3 December 2020 Marg Helgenberger

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it’s not fair to remove him from his whole life.

3 December 2020 Rupert Murdoch

I’m not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

3 December 2020 Clyde Tombaugh

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn’t think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

3 December 2020 William Arthur Ward

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

3 December 2020 Mae West

Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

3 December 2020 Scott Bakula

I’ve always been a big fan of time travel, and I’m very into the notion that some day we’ll be able to do it. Beam me up!

3 December 2020 Josh Radnor

When I go to movies and I love the movie, it’s because it feels like it articulated something about how we’re living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

3 December 2020 Frances O'Grady

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

3 December 2020 Richard H. Davis

I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.

3 December 2020 Vivienne Westwood

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

3 December 2020 will.i.am

My mom’s never been married. I’ve never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

3 December 2020 Josh Hartnett

Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn’t come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

3 December 2020 Georges Seurat

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

3 December 2020 Kinky Friedman

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.

3 December 2020 Noel Coward

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

3 December 2020 Italo Calvino

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one’s nose, taking shortcuts.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

3 December 2020 Janelle Monae

I won’t sit here and say I’ve never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

3 December 2020 Franz Grillparzer

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

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