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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Vita Sackville-West

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

3 December 2020 Jonny Lang

I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I’ve found Him to be.

3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

3 December 2020 A. N. Wilson

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

3 December 2020 Sydney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

3 December 2020 Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’

3 December 2020 Doug Coupland

If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?

3 December 2020 Ryan Reynolds

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time – and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

3 December 2020 Michael Chang

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people’s faces.

3 December 2020 Tatum O'Neal

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

3 December 2020 Andrew Shue

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you’re a teenager you’ve probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you’re going to.

3 December 2020 Alan Watts

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

3 December 2020 Susan B. Anthony

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

3 December 2020 Franz Kafka

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

3 December 2020 Viktor E. Frankl

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

3 December 2020 Ruth Handler

I wasn’t a financial pro, and I paid the price.

3 December 2020 Malcolm X

I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense I call it intelligence.

3 December 2020 Stephen Harper

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

3 December 2020 Fred Allen

I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.

3 December 2020 Larry Bird

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.

3 December 2020 Greer Garson

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

3 December 2020 Tony Blair

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

3 December 2020 Mira Nair

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn’t really exist in a Hollywood game.

3 December 2020 Idris Elba

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It’s been that way for a very long time. I hope it’ll change, but it’s a matter of forcing that change.

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