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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 James K. Polk

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country’s peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

3 December 2020 Confucius

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston

Haters never win. I just think that’s true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

3 December 2020 Walter Lippmann

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

3 December 2020 Dominic Monaghan

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

3 December 2020 Mario Monti

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

3 December 2020 Norman Douglas

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

3 December 2020 Nigella Lawson

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

3 December 2020 Diane Abbott

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

3 December 2020 Louis Kronenberger

The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

3 December 2020 Theodore Hesburgh

Voting is a civic sacrament.

3 December 2020 Robert Falcon Scott

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

3 December 2020 John Moody

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

3 December 2020 Count Basie

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel… and that’s what I’ve been doing all my life.

3 December 2020 Ben Elton

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.

3 December 2020 George Washington Carver

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

3 December 2020 Katherine Heigl

I’m not out burning bras, but I’m very opinionated about women owning their power.

3 December 2020 Alan Thicke

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

3 December 2020 John Wooden

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

3 December 2020 C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

3 December 2020 Christopher Nolan

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

3 December 2020 Guru Nanak

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

3 December 2020 Ed O'Brien

I think that’s what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life’s rich experience.

3 December 2020 Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

3 December 2020 Tom Colicchio

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

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