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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Nadia Comaneci

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

3 December 2020 Lou Holtz

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

3 December 2020 Bjork

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

3 December 2020 Paul Dirac

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

3 December 2020 Iain Banks

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

3 December 2020 James Lovelock

You mustn’t take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

3 December 2020 Rachel Weisz

I don’t believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

3 December 2020 Florence King

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

3 December 2020 April Bowlby

I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.

3 December 2020 Michelle Obama

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

3 December 2020 Horst Koehler

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

3 December 2020 Peter Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

3 December 2020 Mitchell Hurwitz

You know, ‘The Golden Girls’ was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

3 December 2020 Faith Evans

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

3 December 2020 John Patrick

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

3 December 2020 Plato

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

3 December 2020 Conan O'Brien

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

3 December 2020 W. E. B. Du Bois

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

3 December 2020 Dinesh D'Souza

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

3 December 2020 Jon Hamm

It couldn’t be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn’t really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don’t gravitate to it.

3 December 2020 Max Born

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

3 December 2020 Cat Stevens

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

3 December 2020 Tecumseh

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

3 December 2020 George MacDonald

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

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