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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

3 December 2020 Emily Dickinson

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

3 December 2020 Amy Tan

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

3 December 2020 Walter Lippmann

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

3 December 2020 Paul Kantner

The ’80s seem a real positive force. The ’70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

3 December 2020 Casey Stengel

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

3 December 2020 Keith Olbermann

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I’m better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

3 December 2020 Ron Atkinson

I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

3 December 2020 Kevin Nealon

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

3 December 2020 Gary Becker

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

3 December 2020 Vladimir Lenin

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

3 December 2020 Jerry Leiber

It’s self-effacing, it’s hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

3 December 2020 Lucy Powell

I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.

3 December 2020 Eldridge Cleaver

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

3 December 2020 Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

3 December 2020 Michael Jackson

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

When one takes action for others, one’s own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

3 December 2020 Edward Tufte

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

3 December 2020 John Muir

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

3 December 2020 Edie Brickell

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

3 December 2020 Patrick Rothfuss

I’ve got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don’t have the time to work on it right now. I’m way too busy with the ‘Kingkiller Chronicles’ and being a new dad.

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