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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 John Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government.

3 December 2020 Ville Valo

Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

3 December 2020 W. Clement Stone

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

3 December 2020 Jacques Pepin

I say: If you don’t know how to cook, I’m sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, ‘Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?’

3 December 2020 Andy Sawford

The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances the use of Tax Incremental Finance and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.

3 December 2020 Lee Iacocca

One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

3 December 2020 Mohammed Naguib

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

3 December 2020 Anthony J. D'Angelo

Run to meet the future or it’s going to run you down.

3 December 2020 Tim Holden

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society’s democratic values.

3 December 2020 Eric Clapton

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.

3 December 2020 W. H. Auden

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

3 December 2020 Scott Adams

It doesn’t take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

3 December 2020 Chris Tucker

I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

3 December 2020 Chevy Chase

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, ‘Don’t you want to have a normal job and a normal family?’ I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

3 December 2020 Omar Khayyam

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

3 December 2020 John Polkinghorne

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

3 December 2020 George McGovern

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

3 December 2020 Antonio Gaudi

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

3 December 2020 Cory Monteith

I’ll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don’t really do the Hollywood party thing. I’d rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.

3 December 2020 Carroll Quigley

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

3 December 2020 Norman Mailer

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

3 December 2020 Cynthia McKinney

There’s been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.

3 December 2020 Sean Penn

Marriage ain’t easy, but it’s great most of the time.

3 December 2020 Johann Most

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

3 December 2020 W. H. Auden

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

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