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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration’s first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

3 December 2020 Demetri Martin

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you’re really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you’re saying: ‘Hope I don’t get chased today.’ ‘Be nice to people in sneakers.’

3 December 2020 Jean Paul

Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

3 December 2020 Epicurus

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

3 December 2020 Ron Silver

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It’s about character, it’s about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don’t see.

3 December 2020 Andy Samberg

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It’s always something you’re thinking about unconsciously.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

3 December 2020 Whitney M. Young

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

3 December 2020 Gilda Radner

I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

3 December 2020 Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

3 December 2020 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

3 December 2020 Sri Aurobindo

Hidden nature is secret God.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

3 December 2020 Kenny Loggins

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

3 December 2020 Anil Kapoor

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

3 December 2020 William O. Douglas

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

3 December 2020 Roy Barnes

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

3 December 2020 Charles Babbage

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

3 December 2020 Earl Browder

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this – Tito and Mao Tse-tung.

3 December 2020 Bob Dylan

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

3 December 2020 Drew Barrymore

I’d definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child’s dreams. I’d just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do… I think I’d be a good parent, actually.

3 December 2020 Jessamyn West

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

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