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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Walter Lang

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem

Most women’s magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

3 December 2020 Daniel Libeskind

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

Better be alone than in bad company.

3 December 2020 Nigella Lawson

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don’t know if I’d like to make myself worse in that respect.

3 December 2020 Thomas S. Monson

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

3 December 2020 Abbott L. Lowell

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

3 December 2020 Imran Khan

But I don’t need to use politics as a way of making money.

3 December 2020 Allen Ginsberg

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

3 December 2020 Nancy Kerrigan

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn’t, I’d ignore it.

3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

3 December 2020 Michael J. Fox

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That’s what happiness is.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

3 December 2020 David Korten

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

3 December 2020 George S. Patton

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

3 December 2020 J. Paul Getty

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

3 December 2020 Doug Coupland

If cats were double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal.

3 December 2020 Jennifer O'Neill

Forgiveness isn’t about condoning what has happened to you or someone else’s actions against you.

3 December 2020 Kelly Clarkson

I still watch ‘Idol,’ and it’s still the No. 1 show, so obviously I’m not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

3 December 2020 Agnes de Mille

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

3 December 2020 Mario Monti

Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.

3 December 2020 Joe Nichols

I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.

3 December 2020 Harry Mathews

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

3 December 2020 Yoko Ono

All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle

We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.

3 December 2020 Axel Munthe

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

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