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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Akhenaton

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

3 December 2020 Robert Frost

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

3 December 2020 Darrell Issa

I don’t need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

3 December 2020 Jack Kerouac

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

3 December 2020 Conrad Hilton

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

3 December 2020 Fred Melamed

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It’s a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

3 December 2020 Bob Riley

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America ‘s leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

3 December 2020 Bayard Rustin

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

3 December 2020 Clifford Geertz

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn’t a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

3 December 2020 Richard Petty

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

3 December 2020 Graeme Le Saux

I’ve had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I’ve been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I’ve worked hard at it and I’ve always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

3 December 2020 LaToya Jackson

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

3 December 2020 John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

3 December 2020 Roseanne Barr

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.

3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr.

‘The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

3 December 2020 Stuart Appleby

I didn’t really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I’d ask my mom to explain everything they learned – drills and all.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

3 December 2020 Bob Dylan

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

3 December 2020 Maria Mitchell

We especially need imagination in science.

3 December 2020 Al Pacino

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art’s wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

3 December 2020 Brian Austin Green

Somebody who’s really comfortable with who she is and doesn’t care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.

3 December 2020 Barry Levinson

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that’s what ultimately works the best for me.

3 December 2020 Alan Watts

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

3 December 2020 Eric Alterman

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‘There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.’ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

3 December 2020 John Ciardi

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

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