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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

3 December 2020 David Sarnoff

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

3 December 2020 Tommy Lee Jones

If military movies were automatically successful we’d make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein

History takes time. History makes memory.

3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it’s a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice

But the truth of the matter is, we’re an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That’s why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

3 December 2020 Mike Judge

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

3 December 2020 John Key

Bronagh looks after the kids and without her the family would disintegrate… there are some things you can’t discuss with anyone other than your wife. There has to be a strong bond of trust.

3 December 2020 Carrie Underwood

I’m a private person too, and we don’t ever film anything in our home because it’s off limits. It’s like letting people see your messy house.

3 December 2020 Eric Heiden

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

3 December 2020 Olivia Goldsmith

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.

3 December 2020 Shelby Foote

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you’re a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don’t experience either one of those, you’re being deprived of something.

3 December 2020 John Locke

All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

3 December 2020 Joan Jett

I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

3 December 2020 Ed Markey

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

3 December 2020 Jane Addams

America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

3 December 2020 Miranda Richardson

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Manson

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

3 December 2020 Barack Obama

We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.

3 December 2020 Frank Ocean

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

3 December 2020 Sarah Silverman

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn’t. It focuses on facts.

3 December 2020 Miguel de Unamuno

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

3 December 2020 Ric Flair

All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.

3 December 2020 Walt Whitman

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

3 December 2020 Ludwig von Mises

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

3 December 2020 Evo Morales

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration – but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

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