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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Red Cloud

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno

No emancipation without that of society.

3 December 2020 Tom Hopkins

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

3 December 2020 Ralph Merkle

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

3 December 2020 Roberto Cavalli

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

3 December 2020 Michel Foucault

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

3 December 2020 Juliana Hatfield

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

3 December 2020 Marilu Henner

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

3 December 2020 Patricia Heaton

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn’t promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

3 December 2020 Xi Jinping

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

3 December 2020 Nicolas Cage

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

3 December 2020 Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

3 December 2020 Walt Disney

A man should never neglect his family for business.

3 December 2020 Marcel Proust

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

3 December 2020 Donnie Wahlberg

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn’t that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

3 December 2020 Neil Young

I don’t like to be labeled, to be anything. I’ve made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it’s counter-productive.

3 December 2020 Wesley Morris

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

3 December 2020 Pierre de Coubertin

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

3 December 2020 Gene Tierney

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

3 December 2020 Harper Lee

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

3 December 2020 Charles Lamb

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

3 December 2020 William Shatner

My kids say if there’s any family dinner that doesn’t result in somebody crying, it’s not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It’s like a family tradition.

3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg

For any of us in this room today, let’s start out by admitting we’re lucky. We don’t live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

3 December 2020 William Penn

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

3 December 2020 Cicely Tyson

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

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