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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Chris Van Hollen

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

3 December 2020 George A. Smith

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An unused life is an early death.

3 December 2020 Michael Bergin

I wasn’t even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

3 December 2020 Richard Stallman

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.

3 December 2020 William Bell

I wear a lot of different hats – from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

3 December 2020 Ian Somerhalder

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what’s unsustainable in their communities. That’s the future.

3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

3 December 2020 Stephen Covey

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

3 December 2020 Jesus Christ

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God trust also in me.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

3 December 2020 Peter Abelard

The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

3 December 2020 Sienna Miller

All the legal action I’ve taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

3 December 2020 Joseph Crowley

Some of the FDA’s own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA’s actions.

3 December 2020 Major Taylor

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

3 December 2020 Socrates

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

3 December 2020 Edward Kennedy

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

3 December 2020 Hayden Christensen

I love my mother Ali so much. I’m a momma’s boy. I just have a very cool mom. It’s not as though I had any say in the matter. I’m just really fortunate. She’s the most kind, loving, giving woman.

3 December 2020 B. F. Skinner

I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.

3 December 2020 Richard Ford

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn’t be sitting here – but I don’t think I’d be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

3 December 2020 Andrea Dworkin

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

3 December 2020 Susan Sontag

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

3 December 2020 Samuel Gompers

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau

It’s just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

3 December 2020 James Herriot

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

3 December 2020 John Bunyan

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

3 December 2020 Sara Blakely

I’ve always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

3 December 2020 Peter De Vries

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

3 December 2020 George Burns

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

3 December 2020 Elayne Boosler

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

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