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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Simon Travaglia

It’s good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

3 December 2020 James Madison

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

3 December 2020 George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

3 December 2020 William Lyon Mackenzie King

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

3 December 2020 John Naisbitt

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

3 December 2020 Jeff Vandermeer

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or ‘convulsive’ beauty – beauty in the service of liberty.

3 December 2020 Martina McBride

That’s the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can’t always have that. You’re gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won’t be the most popular person in the house.

3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

3 December 2020 Lev Grossman

I’ve drunk Amazon’s free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I’m not anti-Amazon, and I’m not pro-publishers either. I’m pro-books.

3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

3 December 2020 Louis Pasteur

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

3 December 2020 Ashley Montagu

One goes through school, college, medical school and one’s internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

3 December 2020 Juno Temple

I just did a part in ‘Sin City 2.’ I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me… I’m so excited about that I think it’s gonna be very cool.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

3 December 2020 Harry Emerson Fosdick

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

3 December 2020 Kenny Guinn

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

3 December 2020 Gerard De Nerval

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

3 December 2020 William Allen White

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

3 December 2020 Angela Davis

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

3 December 2020 Bethenny Frankel

I’m scared of the unknown future.

3 December 2020 Pablo Neruda

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Rifkin

The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.

3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

3 December 2020 Rita Rudner

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Robert Livingstone

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

3 December 2020 Gene Tierney

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

3 December 2020 LL Cool J

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

3 December 2020 John Adams

A government of laws, and not of men.

3 December 2020 Michael Ian Black

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that’s what a parent’s tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

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