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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Albert Wynn

I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.

3 December 2020 Vladimir Lenin

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

3 December 2020 Paul Robeson

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

3 December 2020 Emmanuelle Beart

Of course I am political. You ‘ave to be don’t you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. ‘Ow can people ignore this? We ‘ave to leave a good world for our children, n’est-ce pas?

3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

3 December 2020 William J. H. Boetcker

True religion… is giving and finding one’s happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

3 December 2020 Howard Zinn

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

3 December 2020 Peter De Vries

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

3 December 2020 James Wolcott

It’s the contemporary woman that movies don’t know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

3 December 2020 Greta Scacchi

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

3 December 2020 Michel Aoun

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

3 December 2020 Wilma Rudolph

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

3 December 2020 Truman Capote

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

3 December 2020 Imogen Cunningham

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

3 December 2020 Chris Van Allsburg

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

3 December 2020 Dave Barry

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

3 December 2020 Helen Rowland

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

3 December 2020 Mitt Romney

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

3 December 2020 Virgil

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

3 December 2020 Christian Nestell Bovee

Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

3 December 2020 Aishwarya Rai

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today’s crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

3 December 2020 Miriam Beard

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

3 December 2020 Lawrence Welk

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn’t speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

3 December 2020 Guy Finley

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness – all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had – outside of us.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

3 December 2020 Ed Bradley

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

3 December 2020 Marguerite Young

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

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