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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Saint Patrick

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.

3 December 2020 Richard Le Gallienne

We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

3 December 2020 Jackson Browne

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I’d like to study piano.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

3 December 2020 Courtney Thorne Smith

If it’s not working before you get married, marriage isn’t going to fix it.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

3 December 2020 Brad Meltzer

Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.

3 December 2020 Saffron Burrows

He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I’ve never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

3 December 2020 LL Cool J

I’m not giving up my history and what I’ve done in my music because I love it and I’m very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

3 December 2020 Barry Hannah

I found out about reviews early on. They’re mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That’s probably why I’m less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

3 December 2020 Tom Robbins

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

3 December 2020 William Lloyd Garrison

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

3 December 2020 Robertson Davies

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

3 December 2020 A. Philip Randolph

Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

3 December 2020 Augusten Burroughs

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

3 December 2020 James Thomson

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

3 December 2020 Sergio Aragones

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

3 December 2020 Eddie Izzard

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

No lie ever reaches old age.

3 December 2020 Confucius

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

3 December 2020 Bobby Flay

I don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

3 December 2020 Erin Morgenstern

I’m an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

3 December 2020 Dennis Miller

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

3 December 2020 Patty Hearst

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

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