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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Roy H. Williams

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they’ve been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

3 December 2020 Irving Berlin

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

3 December 2020 Arlen Specter

It’s inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

3 December 2020 Guy Johnson

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

3 December 2020 Ritchie Blackmore

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

3 December 2020 Kate Mara

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I’d jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson

In the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

3 December 2020 Fred Davis

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don’t have two home supply centers touching each other.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

3 December 2020 Coretta Scott King

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

3 December 2020 Laura Dern

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

3 December 2020 Joan Allen

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That’s what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

3 December 2020 Alphonse Karr

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

3 December 2020 Helena Bonham Carter

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would’ve liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn’t actually have that many scenes.

3 December 2020 John Cusack

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who’s to say anybody’s even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I’ve done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

3 December 2020 Sally Pearson

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

3 December 2020 Tim Gunn

I don’t know why I’ve always been so captivated by architecture.

3 December 2020 Lady Gaga

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

3 December 2020 A. Bartlett Giamatti

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

3 December 2020 Alan Price

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad

Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.

3 December 2020 William Bartram

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

3 December 2020 M. Night Shyamalan

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

3 December 2020 Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

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