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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Christopher Fry

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

3 December 2020 Ben Rattray

Social networking technology didn’t really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.

3 December 2020 Milton Friedman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

3 December 2020 Alexander Pope

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

3 December 2020 Lorenz Hart

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

3 December 2020 Paul Lynde

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

3 December 2020 John Hope

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk

It’s funny how you never think about the women you’ve had. It’s always the ones who get away that you can’t forget.

3 December 2020 Hugh Hefner

I always say now that I’m in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

3 December 2020 Vince Lombardi

Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.

3 December 2020 Bob Filner

Rosa Parks’ courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

3 December 2020 Denis Waitley

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

3 December 2020 Earl Nightingale

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

3 December 2020 Roger Ascham

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

3 December 2020 Sigmar Gabriel

But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.

3 December 2020 Ford Frick

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

3 December 2020 Herman Kahn

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

3 December 2020 Crystal Chappell

I think we’re in good hands. There’s definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone’s got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference.

3 December 2020 Ryan Giggs

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays… We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

3 December 2020 George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

3 December 2020 George Wald

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

3 December 2020 David Spade

To be famous and broke is hard.

3 December 2020 Leslie Fiedler

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science.

3 December 2020 Noah Webster

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

3 December 2020 Samuel Goldwyn

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

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