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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers

It never occurred to me that I wouldn’t go to college and have a career – as well as a family – of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

3 December 2020 Michael Jackson

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

3 December 2020 Fred Rogers

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

3 December 2020 Thornton Wilder

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

3 December 2020 Richard Armour

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other’s faults.

3 December 2020 William Graham Sumner

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

3 December 2020 Daniel Goleman

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

3 December 2020 Star Jones

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

3 December 2020 Boris Spassky

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

3 December 2020 Anita Roddick

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

3 December 2020 Ludwig von Mises

Only one thing can conquer war – that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

3 December 2020 Jean Rostand

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.

3 December 2020 Haley Reinhart

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

3 December 2020 Gary Sheffield

I don’t trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn’t end well.

3 December 2020 Manal al-Sharif

Women tell me they are different since 21 May – the day I was arrested – it’s a positive change, they believe now.

3 December 2020 Robert Rauschenberg

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

3 December 2020 Ethan Hawke

I don’t know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic – a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.

3 December 2020 Joan Collins

I don’t know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

3 December 2020 Oliver Cromwell

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

3 December 2020 Margaret Chase Smith

In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

3 December 2020 Pliny the Elder

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

3 December 2020 Andrew Cohen

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

3 December 2020 James Durbin

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It’s not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal’s cool, you know? Not everybody on ‘American Idol’ listens to metal.

3 December 2020 Richard Bach

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

3 December 2020 Sue Johanson

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

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