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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey

It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God’s.

3 December 2020 Alan Alda

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

3 December 2020 Travis Tritt

It’s the same old story you’ve heard a thousand times. Somebody’s trust gets broken. Somebody’s left behind.

3 December 2020 Frank Miller

What’s happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

3 December 2020 Madame de Stael

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.

3 December 2020 Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

3 December 2020 Chaim Potok

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

3 December 2020 Zachary Quinto

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

3 December 2020 Anthony Hopkins

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

3 December 2020 A. N. Wilson

I don’t think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That’s why people write novels.

3 December 2020 Jonah Hill

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like ‘Mad Men’ is disgusting. It’s a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

3 December 2020 Lester B. Pearson

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

3 December 2020 Lizzy Caplan

Had ‘Bridesmaids’ not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make ‘Bachelorette.’ So we are in awe of ‘Bridesmaids’ and totally owe them so much.

3 December 2020 Dale Carnegie

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

3 December 2020 Pola Negri

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20’s, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one’s imagination.

3 December 2020 Stephen King

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

3 December 2020 Alastair Campbell

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

We can’t go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, ‘Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,’ unless we can demonstrate that it is in America’s interest. I happen to think it is.

3 December 2020 Helen Dunmore

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

3 December 2020 Eugene Levy

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the ’60s. I had a group, but I don’t think it was at the same level as Chris, because he’s an amazing musician.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

3 December 2020 Trey Parker

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I’ll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, ‘Now I’m gonna make films for kids.’ I really hope I don’t do that.

3 December 2020 Shaun White

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.

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