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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Sammy Davis, Jr.

I hadn’t been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn’t show for my wedding.

3 December 2020 Peter MacKay

It’s not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

3 December 2020 Thorstein Veblen

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

3 December 2020 Emma Goldman

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

3 December 2020 Phil Lesh

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

3 December 2020 Mick Jagger

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

3 December 2020 David Wilkerson

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

3 December 2020 Charles Stanley

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I’d rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.

3 December 2020 Jill Bennett

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

3 December 2020 Edwin Land

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

3 December 2020 Joe Dante

‘Avatar’ is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it’s put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.

3 December 2020 Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.

3 December 2020 Confucius

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

3 December 2020 Jose Marti

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

3 December 2020 Lionel Blue

I didn’t want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn’t want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

3 December 2020 Maria Sharapova

I help design my own tennis clothes.

3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

3 December 2020 John Perry Barlow

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

3 December 2020 Karen Duffy

I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women’s health care and education, and I’d dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.

3 December 2020 Christopher Love

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

3 December 2020 Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

3 December 2020 David Mitchell

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

3 December 2020 Whitney Houston

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

3 December 2020 Mitt Romney

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

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