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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Edwidge Danticat

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

3 December 2020 Marcelene Cox

Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

3 December 2020 Charles Dance

It’s a question of keeping one’s eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They’re watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

3 December 2020 Arthur Miller

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

3 December 2020 Robin Day

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn’t endure.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

3 December 2020 Robert Jackson

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary… is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

3 December 2020 Charles Barkley

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, ‘Hey, I’m rich’.

3 December 2020 Dave Matthews

I don’t think socialism, and I don’t think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

3 December 2020 Alexander Pope

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

3 December 2020 Adam Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.

3 December 2020 William James

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

3 December 2020 J. Paul Getty

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

3 December 2020 Meryl Streep

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

3 December 2020 Jonah Hill

‘Allen Gregory’ came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn’t do that in real life.

3 December 2020 Ted Danson

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

3 December 2020 Jessica Brown Findlay

My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.

3 December 2020 Rihanna

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

3 December 2020 Rita Rudner

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

3 December 2020 Fergie

I know this sounds generic, but I’m so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Hurley

I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars – I’ve always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you’re single I want to meet you for a drink.

3 December 2020 Adam Carolla

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

3 December 2020 Ivo Andric

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn’t, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

3 December 2020 Robert Frost

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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