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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

3 December 2020 Thomas Wolfe

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

3 December 2020 George Savile

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

3 December 2020 W. L. George

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

3 December 2020 Henry James

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance… and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

3 December 2020 Maya Lin

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Art is anything you can get away with.

3 December 2020 Harry Browne

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can’t have perfection in a world of limited resources.

3 December 2020 Truman Capote

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.

3 December 2020 Shane MacGowan

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

3 December 2020 Hulk Hogan

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the ’80s and ’90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

3 December 2020 Lindsey Graham

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

3 December 2020 Abdul Qadeer Khan

I have to ask Allah’s forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it’s not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

3 December 2020 Bill Nighy

It can’t be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it’s like Christmas.

3 December 2020 Leon Trotsky

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

3 December 2020 Goran Ivanisevic

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

3 December 2020 Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

3 December 2020 Suzanne Fields

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they’re accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.

3 December 2020 Sam Levenson

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

3 December 2020 Jim Barksdale

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

3 December 2020 Florence Welch

The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it’s a cause that is really close to me and my family.

3 December 2020 Wilson Mizner

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

3 December 2020 Connie Britton

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

3 December 2020 Cat Stevens

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

3 December 2020 Rashida Jones

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It’s like a fight-or-flight thing.

3 December 2020 Charles Alexander Eastman

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

3 December 2020 Julia Cameron

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

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