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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Oscar Levant

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

3 December 2020 Horace Mann

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

3 December 2020 Mario Batali

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

3 December 2020 Bill Cosby

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

3 December 2020 James A. Michener

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

3 December 2020 Clive Owen

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

3 December 2020 James Buchan

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

3 December 2020 Neil Jordan

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It’s about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it’s worth getting your teeth into.

3 December 2020 Rodney King

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

3 December 2020 Rene Redzepi

People will travel anywhere for good food – it’s crazy.

3 December 2020 Gwyneth Paltrow

I love being. There’s so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn’t it great just being?

3 December 2020 Russ Carnahan

I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

3 December 2020 Paul Lynde

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

3 December 2020 Mary Astell

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, ’tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform’d what is the true Way to Happiness.

3 December 2020 Emilio Estevez

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

3 December 2020 Fidel Castro

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

3 December 2020 Billie Joe Armstrong

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

3 December 2020 Jimmy Smits

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

3 December 2020 Paul Farmer

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn’t be such a big deal.

3 December 2020 Frank Carlucci

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us… they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.

3 December 2020 Jean Ingelow

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

3 December 2020 Ethel Merman

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

3 December 2020 Robert Frank

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

3 December 2020 Russell Baker

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

3 December 2020 Donald Norman

Isn’t one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it’s basically impossible to use text to show that.

3 December 2020 Anna Neagle

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

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