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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Gene Tierney

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

3 December 2020 Denis Waitley

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

3 December 2020 William Graham Sumner

The forgotten man… He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

3 December 2020 Anna Kendrick

When I get recognized for ‘Twilight,’ it’s usually a teenage girl, and they’re usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.

3 December 2020 Maya Angelou

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.

3 December 2020 Bob Etheridge

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

3 December 2020 Robert Benchley

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

3 December 2020 Orson Scott Card

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

3 December 2020 William Arthur Ward

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

3 December 2020 Muammar al-Gaddafi

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

3 December 2020 Vaclav Havel

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

3 December 2020 Lorna Luft

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

3 December 2020 Kiana Tom

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

3 December 2020 Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

3 December 2020 Vince Lombardi

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

3 December 2020 John Battelle

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

3 December 2020 Mary Schmich

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

3 December 2020 Anita Hill

I’m not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

3 December 2020 B. J. Novak

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

3 December 2020 Julie Bowen

I’m so not stylish by nature, but I’ve learned to work with what I have.

3 December 2020 Norm MacDonald

Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

3 December 2020 Tucker Carlson

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

3 December 2020 Sylvester Stallone

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

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