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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

3 December 2020 Norman Cousins

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

3 December 2020 Ben Kingsley

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

3 December 2020 Peter Schuyler

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

3 December 2020 Karl Marx

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

3 December 2020 Maria Monk

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.

3 December 2020 Erika Slezak

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that’s how it was in those days.

3 December 2020 Emma Goldman

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

3 December 2020 Orson Pratt

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

3 December 2020 Morgan Brittany

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you’re the pedestal they built for you.

3 December 2020 Anthony Doerr

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

3 December 2020 Shinichi Suzuki

Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

3 December 2020 Alexei Sayle

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

3 December 2020 Barack Obama

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

3 December 2020 Olivia Wilde

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

3 December 2020 Charles Mengel Allen

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

3 December 2020 Clive Barker

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one’s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

3 December 2020 John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

3 December 2020 Nicole Richie

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren’t necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

3 December 2020 Eric Braeden

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

I can’t bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

3 December 2020 Lin Yutang

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

3 December 2020 Pete du Pont

There’s a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

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