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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Bill Murray

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything – your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

3 December 2020 John C. Maxwell

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

3 December 2020 Sandra Bernhard

That disturbs people when they know they didn’t have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

3 December 2020 Ryszard Kapuscinski

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

3 December 2020 Robert Frost

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

3 December 2020 Langston Hughes

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

3 December 2020 Susan B. Anthony

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

3 December 2020 Ellen DeGeneres

So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

3 December 2020 Pharrell Williams

I don’t want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I’m 70.

3 December 2020 King Hussein I

Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.

3 December 2020 Maimonides

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol

I feel, in the end, as if everything I’ve done has been a failure.

3 December 2020 Fredrik Bajer

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

3 December 2020 Reed Hastings

What’s got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

3 December 2020 W. Clement Stone

There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

3 December 2020 Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

3 December 2020 Zoe Saldana

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

3 December 2020 Robert Herrick

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

3 December 2020 Tertullian

Fear is the foundation of safety.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

3 December 2020 Katherine Heigl

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it’s better, and in a lot of ways it’s worse. That’s life, right?

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

3 December 2020 Phillip E. Johnson

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

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