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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 John Lancaster Spalding

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

3 December 2020 Albert Brooks

I can’t not put humor in a book.

3 December 2020 Eric McCormack

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, ‘Hey, come see my play,’ he’d say, ‘Sure.’ He’d see one, ‘Oh, good play’ – you know, very typical dad reaction.

3 December 2020 Matthew Henry

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

3 December 2020 Pearl S. Buck

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

3 December 2020 Aristotle Onassis

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

3 December 2020 Thomas Moore

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

3 December 2020 Joyce Maynard

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

3 December 2020 Beverly Sills

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

3 December 2020 Stephen Fry

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

3 December 2020 Lee Scott

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

3 December 2020 Emeril Lagasse

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

3 December 2020 David Bowie

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.

3 December 2020 Shel Silverstein

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

3 December 2020 Paramahansa Yogananda

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

3 December 2020 Manfred von Richthofen

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

3 December 2020 Michael Bloomberg

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

3 December 2020 Gus O'Donnell

It’s amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.

3 December 2020 Gabrielle Union

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you’ve got osteoporosis.

3 December 2020 Lord Byron

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

3 December 2020 Barack Obama

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

3 December 2020 Garrison Keillor

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

3 December 2020 Katey Sagal

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done.

3 December 2020 Jared Leto

Music is subjective to everyone’s unique experience.

3 December 2020 Anita Brookner

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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