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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Dylan Thomas

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

3 December 2020 David Hume

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

3 December 2020 Katy Perry

I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

3 December 2020 Ron Paul

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war – starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

3 December 2020 Bhumibol Adulyadej

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

3 December 2020 Imran Khan

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

3 December 2020 Herodotus

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

3 December 2020 Jack Johnson

Don’t let your dreams be dreams.

3 December 2020 George Mason

A few years’ experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

3 December 2020 Max Nordau

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles… respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law… or, in a word justice.

3 December 2020 Elisabeth Rohm

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

3 December 2020 David Millar

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don’t have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

3 December 2020 Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

3 December 2020 Nicole Scherzinger

Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn’t going to be like that. But now I know I’m going to be exactly like my mom. I’m going to be worse!

3 December 2020 Peter Mandelson

We’ve got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

3 December 2020 Evander Holyfield

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

3 December 2020 Ralph Merkle

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don’t worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

3 December 2020 Maggie Gyllenhaal

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you’re probably going to invest in somebody who’s going to deceive you. I’ve been conned a couple of times, but now I’m a little more savvy.

3 December 2020 Carter G. Woodson

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

3 December 2020 Nancy Sinatra

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

3 December 2020 Jack L. Chalker

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

3 December 2020 Pat Buckley

I believe in the power of weakness.

3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

3 December 2020 Larry David

If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny.

3 December 2020 Thomas Frank

Acknowledging class was always difficult for ‘New Democrats’ – it was second-wave, it was divisive – but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

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