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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 John Ciardi

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

3 December 2020 Mandy Moore

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it’s in my blood.

3 December 2020 Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

3 December 2020 Chris Klein

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

3 December 2020 Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

3 December 2020 Dick Schaap

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

3 December 2020 Tim Gunn

I wouldn’t know what to do on a date. I don’t have the time. To make a relationship work, I’d have to give something up, and I’m not so sure I’m willing to do that.

3 December 2020 Niels Bohr

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

3 December 2020 Michael N. Castle

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said ‘if you ever get a second chance for something, you’ve got to go all the way.’

3 December 2020 Noah Webster

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

3 December 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

3 December 2020 Henry George

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

3 December 2020 Anne Rice

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I’ve always had a very close relationship with them.

3 December 2020 Rod Serling

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

3 December 2020 Nelson Algren

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

3 December 2020 Millard Fillmore

It is not strange… to mistake change for progress.

3 December 2020 Martin Yan

I normally don’t eat junk food.

3 December 2020 Bianca Jagger

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

3 December 2020 Jim Rohn

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

3 December 2020 Dana Spiotta

I don’t have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

3 December 2020 Amy Tan

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

3 December 2020 Trent Reznor

And when the day arrives I’ll become the sky and I’ll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

3 December 2020 Mark Zuckerberg

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook’s a free service. It’s free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

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