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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 William Arthur Ward

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row – that wears on you.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

3 December 2020 Story Musgrave

When you’re looking that far out, you’re giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn’t need translation. It’s like poetry, it touches you.

3 December 2020 Sarah Polley

It’s not that I don’t want to become famous or that I’m obsessed by my work as an actress, but it’s all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

3 December 2020 George Bancroft

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

3 December 2020 Joe Baca

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

3 December 2020 Charles James Fox

All political power is a trust.

3 December 2020 Zhuang Zi

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

3 December 2020 Sanford I. Weill

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

3 December 2020 Paulo Coelho

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

3 December 2020 Abigail Adams

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

3 December 2020 Frank Gehry

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. ‘The client made me do this.’ ‘The city made me do this.’ ‘Oh, the budget.’ I don’t believe that anymore.

3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

3 December 2020 Jayma Mays

My mom was a big ‘Smurfs’ fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, ‘Hurray, cartoons!’ and she would say, ‘Smurfs! That’s what you’re watching.’

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

3 December 2020 Max Planck

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

3 December 2020 Stephen Harper

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

3 December 2020 Larry Hagman

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

3 December 2020 Tim Burton

There’s something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

3 December 2020 Richard Wright

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

3 December 2020 Donald O'Connor

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

3 December 2020 Natalie Wood

I couldn’t even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

3 December 2020 Charles Peguy

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey

I’m not an anarchist, but I believe that people don’t want the royal family – the so-called royal family.

3 December 2020 Adam Rickitt

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

3 December 2020 Jan Schakowsky

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

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