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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Simone de Beauvoir

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

3 December 2020 Rollo May

Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

3 December 2020 Paul Harvey

If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

3 December 2020 Michael LeBoeuf

Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.

3 December 2020 Barbara Feldon

I’m not saying that there’s anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I’m saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven’t quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

3 December 2020 Jim Ryun

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

3 December 2020 Joe Biden

My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.’

3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

3 December 2020 Otto von Bismarck

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

3 December 2020 William Bartram

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

3 December 2020 Ruben Studdard

I’m not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.

3 December 2020 Grete Waitz

I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

3 December 2020 Chris Rock

Right now, my job is that I’m like an ambulance chaser. I’ve got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

3 December 2020 Tony Stewart

When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.

3 December 2020 Alma Guillermoprieto

There is no point to samba if it doesn’t make you smile.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

3 December 2020 Donald Rumsfeld

Politics is human beings it’s addition rather than subtraction.

3 December 2020 Joel Silver

I’m happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that’s where I want to be.

3 December 2020 Mitt Romney

Today’s misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work – its going to take a new president.

3 December 2020 Robert Fulghum

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

3 December 2020 Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

3 December 2020 William Penn

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

3 December 2020 Peter Singer

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

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