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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

3 December 2020 Ernie Harwell

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I’m nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

3 December 2020 George W. Bush

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

3 December 2020 Dan Millman

Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

3 December 2020 Terry Brooks

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

3 December 2020 Sammy Davis, Jr.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

3 December 2020 Wernher von Braun

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

3 December 2020 Nhat Hanh

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

3 December 2020 T. E. Lawrence

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

3 December 2020 Loretta Young

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

3 December 2020 Brian De Palma

That’s what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

3 December 2020 Kyle Chandler

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

3 December 2020 Andrew Motion

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

3 December 2020 Martha Graham

To me, a building – if it’s beautiful – is the love of one man, he’s made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

3 December 2020 Rand Paul

I would have voted ‘no’ on the Iraq war and ‘yes’ to Afghanistan.

3 December 2020 Thabo Mbeki

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen

People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can’t manage it.

3 December 2020 Larry Flynt

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

3 December 2020 Donald Knuth

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

3 December 2020 Edward Albert

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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