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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

3 December 2020 Ellen DeGeneres

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

3 December 2020 Robin Quivers

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

3 December 2020 Billy Graham

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don’t have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there’s poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

3 December 2020 Amy Grant

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

3 December 2020 John Milton

Beauty is nature’s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

3 December 2020 W. C. Fields

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

3 December 2020 Tom Wilson

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

3 December 2020 Bear Grylls

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

3 December 2020 Elayne Boosler

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera

My parent’s divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn’t necessarily have had otherwise.

3 December 2020 Jerry O'Connell

I like wearing my wedding ring, it’s nice.

3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen

But then I go through long periods where I don’t listen to things, usually when I’m working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

3 December 2020 Meryl Streep

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

3 December 2020 W. Edwards Deming

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

3 December 2020 E. M. Forster

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

3 December 2020 Tony Visconti

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga

There really are three types of ‘religious’ movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

3 December 2020 Jessica Simpson

A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

3 December 2020 Lucille Ball

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

3 December 2020 Algernon Charles Swinburne

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

3 December 2020 Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

3 December 2020 Henny Youngman

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

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