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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

3 December 2020 Rupert Murdoch

I’m a strange mixture of my mother’s curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother’s father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

3 December 2020 Richard Linklater

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne

An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.

3 December 2020 Peter Davison

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

3 December 2020 Meister Eckhart

God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

3 December 2020 Harlan Coben

No characters in ‘Stay Close,’ including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

3 December 2020 Rashida Jones

I don’t want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

3 December 2020 Garth Brooks

Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got.

3 December 2020 Chiang Kai-shek

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

3 December 2020 Joey Lauren Adams

‘Chasing Amy’ was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did ‘Big Daddy’ and you’re the girlfriend or you’re the best friend. I wasn’t getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

3 December 2020 Yogi Berra

I never said most of the things I said.

3 December 2020 Robert Scheer

For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.

3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

3 December 2020 George Bancroft

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey

I hated the royal wedding.

3 December 2020 Jon Meacham

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America’s unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom – not least freedom of conscience.

3 December 2020 Ovid

Time is generally the best doctor.

3 December 2020 William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg

A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.

3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

3 December 2020 Cobi Jones

Overall, I think I’m in pretty good shape, but I’m not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.

3 December 2020 Enrique Iglesias

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I’m against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

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