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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Elisabeth Rohm

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you’re not working, you’re not interesting.

3 December 2020 Boris Spassky

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

3 December 2020 Eliza Haywood

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

3 December 2020 Margaret Mead

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

3 December 2020 Robert Casey

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

3 December 2020 George Galloway

I’m an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

All diseases run into one, old age.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

3 December 2020 Garet Garrett

Business is in itself a power.

3 December 2020 George Washington

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn’t audition. It was nepotism all the way.

3 December 2020 Michael Jordan

Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.

3 December 2020 Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

3 December 2020 Marguerite Young

I’m as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I’m much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

3 December 2020 Aldrich Ames

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn’t support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

3 December 2020 Walter Lang

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

3 December 2020 Jim Morrison

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

3 December 2020 Stanley Kubrick

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

3 December 2020 Paul Cellucci

I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship.

3 December 2020 Peter Mullan

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that’s what they are – they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

3 December 2020 Charlie Chaplin

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

3 December 2020 Bill Rancic

I’m a big fan of small business ownership. I think it’s the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

3 December 2020 Vladimir Kramnik

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

3 December 2020 will.i.am

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

3 December 2020 Georg C. Lichtenberg

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

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