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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Andre Malraux

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man’s fate.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

3 December 2020 Clay Aiken

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

3 December 2020 Zoe Saldana

I’m very accepting with my age. It’s like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin.

3 December 2020 Paul Watzlawick

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one’s own view of the nature of one’s relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

3 December 2020 Christopher Morley

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

3 December 2020 Ivor Novello

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass

It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

3 December 2020 Bram Stoker

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

3 December 2020 Greta Gerwig

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

3 December 2020 Park Geun-hye

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

3 December 2020 Maggie Q

I don’t work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I’m not going on the cover of ‘Maxim’ and ‘FHM’ because that’s not me.

3 December 2020 Dean Norris

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

3 December 2020 John Updike

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

3 December 2020 William Penn

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

3 December 2020 Christopher Isherwood

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, ‘Oh, our attitude has changed. We don’t dislike these people any more.’ But by the strangest coincidence, they haven’t taken away the injustice the laws are still on the books.

3 December 2020 Shaun White

If you do a trick and it doesn’t work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, ‘OK, I’m cool, it’s all good.’

3 December 2020 Aldo Leopold

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

3 December 2020 Juliette Binoche

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

3 December 2020 Willie Stargell

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

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