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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

3 December 2020 Thom Gunn

My old teacher’s definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

3 December 2020 Keanu Reeves

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

3 December 2020 Michelle Branch

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn’t exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

3 December 2020 Rick Warren

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey

I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

3 December 2020 Lope de Vega

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

3 December 2020 Flip Wilson

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we’re ‘dead earnest,’ humor is the only thing that is dead.

3 December 2020 Lana Del Rey

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

3 December 2020 Norman Douglas

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

3 December 2020 Sachin Tendulkar

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Irons

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.

3 December 2020 Goran Persson

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

3 December 2020 Douglas Hurd

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

3 December 2020 Christy Turlington

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee

The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

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