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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Norman Cook

I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.

3 December 2020 Alexander Pope

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

3 December 2020 Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

3 December 2020 Rose Kennedy

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.

3 December 2020 Rick Perry

Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business – men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it’s going to cost us and cost us a lot.

3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

3 December 2020 Bob Woodward

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn

I ain’t got much education, but I got some sense.

3 December 2020 William C. Bryant

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion.

3 December 2020 Michael N. Castle

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

3 December 2020 Clare Boothe Luce

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

3 December 2020 Johnny Isakson

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

3 December 2020 Patricia Heaton

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they’re at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

3 December 2020 Paul Feig

I love funny people, and when I’m with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, ‘Hey let me tell you a joke.’

3 December 2020 Kary Mullis

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

3 December 2020 Matt Stone

And there’s a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it’s not CG, there’s something funny about it.

3 December 2020 Charles Van Doren

The last part, the part you’re now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

3 December 2020 Arnold Bennett

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

3 December 2020 Katherine Jenkins

I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It’s something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance.

3 December 2020 Jon Meacham

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

3 December 2020 Sharron Angle

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

3 December 2020 Pam Brown

A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

3 December 2020 Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

3 December 2020 James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.

3 December 2020 Rita Rudner

Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.

3 December 2020 Betty White

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health – I don’t abuse it.

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