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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Peter Davison

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

3 December 2020 Roman Polanski

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it’s on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

3 December 2020 Martha Beck

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It’s your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

3 December 2020 Zachary Levi

I’ll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I’ll be with friends of mine who have kids, that want to watch ‘Finding Nemo,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, okay, let’s watch ‘Nemo’ again, for the seven billionth time!,’ because they’re amazing movies.

3 December 2020 Herbert Croly

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

3 December 2020 Donna Shalala

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I’m in the car.

3 December 2020 Conor Cruise O'Brien

Human nature doesn’t include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

3 December 2020 Horace Mann

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

3 December 2020 Maurice Maeterlinck

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

3 December 2020 Robert Collier

The source and center of all man’s creative power… is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

3 December 2020 Ricky Williams

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.’

3 December 2020 Charlie Sheen

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

3 December 2020 Paul McCartney

It’s time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin Fairless

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

3 December 2020 W. C. Fields

I like children – fried.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

3 December 2020 Valentino Garavani

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

3 December 2020 Conan O'Brien

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

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