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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

3 December 2020 Ashley Tisdale

My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.

3 December 2020 Thabo Mbeki

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask – when will we get a road to our village.

3 December 2020 Sun Tzu

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

3 December 2020 Jose Padilha

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

3 December 2020 Ray Stannard Baker

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

3 December 2020 Dan Quayle

It’s a very good historical book about history.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

3 December 2020 Peter Ustinov

I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

3 December 2020 Marian McPartland

I’m trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won’t be out until next year. I don’t know.

3 December 2020 Keith O'Brien

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

3 December 2020 Robert Graves

What we now call ‘finance’ is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

3 December 2020 Dave Barry

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

3 December 2020 Jack Nicklaus

This is a game. That’s all it is. It’s not a war.

3 December 2020 Washington Irving

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

3 December 2020 James Hansen

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine’s a business today. It’s a business.

3 December 2020 Bruno Bettelheim

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

3 December 2020 Nicky Hilton

I’m following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn’t do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I’m very happy.

3 December 2020 Mickey Hart

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

3 December 2020 Henry Ford

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

3 December 2020 Guy Pearce

Success comes in waves.

3 December 2020 Archibald Wavell

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.

3 December 2020 Cheryl Hines

The things the writers have me doing on ‘Suburgatory’ are insane. I think they think it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

3 December 2020 Katy Perry

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America – especially as a female.

3 December 2020 Michael Sheen

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

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