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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Henrik Ibsen

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

3 December 2020 Herbert Read

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

3 December 2020 Natan Sharansky

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

3 December 2020 Placido Domingo

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

3 December 2020 Og Mandino

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

3 December 2020 Duane Chapman

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho’oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

3 December 2020 Joan Lunden

A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.

3 December 2020 Chloe Sevigny

I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky – in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

3 December 2020 Sam Donaldson

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can’t just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it’s much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

3 December 2020 Robin Tunney

A film’s success or failure is strictly on the director’s shoulders.

3 December 2020 Rachael Leigh Cook

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Rendell

If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he’s a funny guy. He’s a good guy. He knows sports.

3 December 2020 Arsene Wenger

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

3 December 2020 Yul Brynner

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

3 December 2020 Dwight L. Moody

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

3 December 2020 Buddy Rich

But, I don’t think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can’t create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that’s written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.

3 December 2020 Georg Cantor

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

3 December 2020 Tom Peters

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

3 December 2020 Sela Ward

I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.

3 December 2020 Bill Nighy

I’m not a royal family watcher.

3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

3 December 2020 Elia Kazan

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors… and that is their competitive sense.

3 December 2020 Wislawa Szymborska

Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

3 December 2020 Ron Lewis

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

3 December 2020 Suze Orman

They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.

3 December 2020 Hoda Kotb

In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It’s like you’re watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.

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