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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 John Berger

The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

3 December 2020 Tertullian

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

3 December 2020 Alexander McQueen

Rap music’s been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn’t.

3 December 2020 Ashley Montagu

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family ‘gets together’ alone.

3 December 2020 Jackie Kennedy

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President’s widow?

3 December 2020 Joel Osteen

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

3 December 2020 John Harington

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

3 December 2020 Richard Lewis

When you’re in love it’s the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don’t give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

3 December 2020 Josh McDowell

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

3 December 2020 Melanie Laurent

Because I’ve made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I’m much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that’s what’s important to me. I don’t really care about making a big movie – I just want to make good ones.

3 December 2020 Ken Burns

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

3 December 2020 Amy Poehler

Always remember your kid’s name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don’t let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers… for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.

3 December 2020 Adam Schiff

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

3 December 2020 Maya Angelou

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

3 December 2020 Kris Allen

I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

3 December 2020 Thomas Paine

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’

3 December 2020 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

3 December 2020 Vera Brittain

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

3 December 2020 Adrian Belew

I didn’t make my first solo record until 1981 so I don’t have any 60’s or 70’s recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

3 December 2020 Phyllis Schlafly

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

3 December 2020 Hans Urs von Balthasar

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

3 December 2020 Paul Berg

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

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