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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

3 December 2020 Calvin Klein

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

3 December 2020 Barry McGuigan

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

3 December 2020 Mary Douglas

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

3 December 2020 Mike Huckabee

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

3 December 2020 Rick Springfield

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

3 December 2020 Marc Jacobs

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting.

3 December 2020 Colin Greenwood

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

3 December 2020 Portia de Rossi

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it’s beautiful. I’m such a romantic, and I always have been.

3 December 2020 Barbara Corcoran

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

3 December 2020 Vladimir Lenin

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

3 December 2020 Jordin Sparks

It’s cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They’ll tell me if I’m doing something stupid!

3 December 2020 Wilfred Owen

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

3 December 2020 Donna Tartt

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

3 December 2020 Kate Millett

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn’t like you.

3 December 2020 Nancy Grace

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

3 December 2020 Sloane Crosley

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

3 December 2020 Ted Nelson

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

3 December 2020 Mao Zedong

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

3 December 2020 George Clooney

I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.

3 December 2020 Dana Snyder

I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

3 December 2020 Roland Joffe

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

3 December 2020 Patrick Rothfuss

When you’re 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you’re 21 and you’ve read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren’t really good. OK, let’s be honest. A lot of them were crap.

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