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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Steve Jobs

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

3 December 2020 Plato

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

3 December 2020 Lindsey Graham

What’s going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We’re getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you’re in charge.

3 December 2020 Jon Meacham

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.

3 December 2020 Julianna Baggott

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

3 December 2020 William Blake

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

3 December 2020 Lord Robertson

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

3 December 2020 Margaret Mahy

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

3 December 2020 Anthony Doerr

I always told my dad I’d play professional football.

3 December 2020 Warren G. Harding

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

3 December 2020 Hugh Bonneville

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

3 December 2020 Ben Affleck

Yes, I’m going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

3 December 2020 Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

3 December 2020 Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

3 December 2020 Reba McEntire

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We’re all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

3 December 2020 Brooke Shields

What does good in bed mean to me? When I’m sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup – that’s good in bed.

3 December 2020 Walter Savage Landor

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

3 December 2020 Sally Ride

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

3 December 2020 Michael Bloomberg

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It’s not politically viable it’s not morally right it’s just not going to happen.

3 December 2020 John Berger

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

3 December 2020 Leighton Meester

I feel more mature than most people my age.

3 December 2020 Bodhidharma

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

3 December 2020 Janis Karpinski

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam – whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

3 December 2020 David Ogden Stiers

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I’m never going to change that film.

3 December 2020 Plato

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

3 December 2020 Lena Dunham

I’ve only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

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