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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ernest Istook

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

3 December 2020 Henry W. Kendall

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

3 December 2020 Allen Tate

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

3 December 2020 Simon Armitage

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

3 December 2020 George Papandreou

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

3 December 2020 Tom Holt

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don’t and haven’t, but that’s my problem.

3 December 2020 Ryan Lochte

No matter what, like, I couldn’t – I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That’s what she says all the time.

3 December 2020 Oskar Werner

I’m married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

3 December 2020 Gwen Stefani

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

3 December 2020 Geronimo

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

3 December 2020 David Eagleman

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

3 December 2020 Felix Frankfurter

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

3 December 2020 Alfred Adler

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

3 December 2020 Bono

Rock ‘n’ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

3 December 2020 Zebulon Pike

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

3 December 2020 Kate Moss

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

3 December 2020 James Freeman Clarke

Strong convictions precede great actions.

3 December 2020 Thom Gunn

Deep feeling doesn’t make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

3 December 2020 John Updike

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

3 December 2020 Pierre Dukan

I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I’m away from home.

3 December 2020 Syd Barrett

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it’s so clean.

3 December 2020 Stephen Hadley

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

3 December 2020 Loretta Young

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I’ve dealt with them nearly all my life.

3 December 2020 Laura Bush

Jenna’s traveled with me they’ve both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they’ve been old enough in all of their dad’s campaigns to really be involved in.

3 December 2020 Mike Schmidt

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

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