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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

3 December 2020 Martin H. Fischer

A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions.

3 December 2020 Gavin DeGraw

My dad didn’t want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

3 December 2020 Mortimer Adler

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

3 December 2020 Richard Francis Burton

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

3 December 2020 Neil Sheehan

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn’t mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit’s still 65.

3 December 2020 Larry Elder

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

3 December 2020 Russ Feingold

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It’s far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman

Black history is American history.

3 December 2020 Salvatore Quasimodo

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man’s dreams, man’s illness, man’s redemption from the misery of poverty – poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

3 December 2020 Bill Richardson

President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They’re different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It’s a great merging of the party.

3 December 2020 Matthias Schoenaerts

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called ‘Rust &amp Bone’ with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I’m truly sad that it’s over!

3 December 2020 W. Averell Harriman

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country’s never been the same since.

3 December 2020 Tommy Mottola

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

3 December 2020 Bruce Lee

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

3 December 2020 Mark Kennedy

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

3 December 2020 Julia Roberts

It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

3 December 2020 Franz Kafka

My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

3 December 2020 Adam Sandler

I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.

3 December 2020 Lea DeLaria

What do you mean you don’t believe in homosexuality? It’s not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn’t necessary.

3 December 2020 Ashton Eaton

When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.

3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

3 December 2020 Sacha Guitry

The best way to turn a woman’s head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

3 December 2020 Gwyneth Paltrow

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

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