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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Helen Reddy

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

3 December 2020 Steve Forbes

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

3 December 2020 Empedocles

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

3 December 2020 Ted Nugent

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

3 December 2020 Tony Randall

There’s only one thing worse than a man who doesn’t have strong likes and dislikes, and that’s a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

3 December 2020 John Yoo

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

3 December 2020 Greg Louganis

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don’t know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I’m still doing the work I always wanted to do.

3 December 2020 Kesha

It’s about time that society accepts people for who they are.

3 December 2020 George Carey

If there are Muslims who believe that they’ve got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there’s no doubt about that.

3 December 2020 Ann Landers

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

3 December 2020 Mitt Romney

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

3 December 2020 Karrie Webb

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

3 December 2020 Coco Chanel

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

3 December 2020 Jerry Falwell

AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

3 December 2020 Emmanuelle Beart

For me, I don’t feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

3 December 2020 Jenna Fischer

Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn’t necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

3 December 2020 Alban Berg

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

3 December 2020 Sam Mendes

I think movies are a director’s medium in the end. Theater is the actor’s medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

In every parting there is an image of death.

3 December 2020 Andy Grove

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Chamberlin

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn’t understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

3 December 2020 Jane Goodall

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

3 December 2020 Curtis LeMay

Sometime in the future – 25, 50, 75 years hence – what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

3 December 2020 Ross Perot

Business is not just doing deals business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

3 December 2020 Ron Kind

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

3 December 2020 Hugo Black

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

3 December 2020 Henri Matisse

I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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