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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

3 December 2020 Confucius

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you’re wonderful every time you do something I think that’s human nature.

3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

3 December 2020 Hilaire Belloc

I’m tired of love I’m still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.

3 December 2020 Barbara de Angelis

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

3 December 2020 Bill James

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

3 December 2020 Pearl S. Buck

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

3 December 2020 Alexander Pope

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

3 December 2020 Francois Rabelais

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

3 December 2020 Ed O'Brien

Not in the mornings, I’m always so tired in the morning.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

3 December 2020 Doc Hastings

We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a debt we can never fully repay.

3 December 2020 James Taylor

It’s probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it’s a failure.

3 December 2020 Jane Pauley

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I’ve always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That’s my dad.

3 December 2020 Max Jacob

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

3 December 2020 Patty Berg

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

3 December 2020 David Puttnam

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.

3 December 2020 Frances O'Grady

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet or that citizens’ rights come second to those of corporations.

3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith

My view is pensioners don’t have the one option that people of working age have. They can’t really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

3 December 2020 John Bunyan

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

3 December 2020 Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

3 December 2020 Serj Tankian

We first fought… in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

3 December 2020 Andrea Jung

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She’ll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman’s role in the economy benefits society at large.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

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