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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ryan Sheckler

I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.

3 December 2020 Milton Friedman

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

3 December 2020 Andre Agassi

Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn’t want to see it for myself but I certainly didn’t want millions of people to see it.

3 December 2020 Christopher Dawson

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

3 December 2020 Lester B. Pearson

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

3 December 2020 Katharine Hepburn

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

3 December 2020 Brent Scowcroft

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

3 December 2020 John C. Hawkes

I’m only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

3 December 2020 Ron Fournier

With gridlock the norm, Congress’s approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

3 December 2020 Paulo Coelho

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

3 December 2020 Louis Kronenberger

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

3 December 2020 Rodney Dangerfield

With my wife I don’t get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to ‘the best woman a man ever had.’ The waiter joined me.

3 December 2020 John C. Maxwell

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

3 December 2020 Mercedes McCambridge

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

3 December 2020 William Wordsworth

Faith is a passionate intuition.

3 December 2020 Christopher Meloni

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

3 December 2020 Djuna Barnes

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections.

3 December 2020 Slash

I allow myself one nice car.

3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

3 December 2020 Jack Osbourne

If I have a problem, stuff’s going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad… I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

3 December 2020 John Drinkwater

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

3 December 2020 James D. Watson

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

3 December 2020 Joan Jett

You follow any family around, you’re going to see elation, you’re going to see disharmony.

3 December 2020 Michael Morpurgo

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don’t want it to happen. I’m much more interested in peace than in war but it’s important to understand why we fight.

3 December 2020 Godfrey Reggio

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

3 December 2020 Isabel Allende

I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

3 December 2020 Colin Farrell

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

3 December 2020 Karl Marx

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

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