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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jennifer Lopez

I think if you’re in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist.

3 December 2020 George W. Bush

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

3 December 2020 Thomas Paine

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

3 December 2020 Sidney Poitier

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

3 December 2020 Joe Scarborough

When I’m in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.

3 December 2020 Ralph Nader

I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations.

3 December 2020 Kate Middleton

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

3 December 2020 Ashley Scott

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

3 December 2020 Robert Morgan

If a poem is not memorable, there’s probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

3 December 2020 Lillian Gordy Carter

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

3 December 2020 Wim Wenders

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

3 December 2020 Terry Gilliam

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn’t do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I’m trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we’re just finishing editing.

3 December 2020 Ralph Peters

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

3 December 2020 Doug Coupland

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people’s families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

3 December 2020 Rudyard Kipling

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

3 December 2020 E. M. Forster

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

3 December 2020 Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

3 December 2020 Benjamin Day

I’m going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I’m going home right now.

3 December 2020 Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

3 December 2020 Scott Baio

If I lived alone, Mom’d never sleep because she wouldn’t know I was okay.

3 December 2020 Anatole France

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

3 December 2020 William Shatner

I don’t know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

3 December 2020 Franklin P. Jones

It’s the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon which raises the fear that it may not be long before we’re paying somebody not to.

3 December 2020 Dan Stevens

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays – I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want – but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

3 December 2020 Jason Bateman

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

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