Skip to content
QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Orson Welles

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

3 December 2020 John Calvin

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

3 December 2020 Ryszard Kapuscinski

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

3 December 2020 Tim Tebow

On the field I’m trying to play for the glory of God but then also I’m trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we’re playing.

3 December 2020 Christopher Durang

Since it’s based on my parents, it’s more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

3 December 2020 Ernest Istook

It’s good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don’t fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

3 December 2020 Lee Iacocca

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann

I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: ‘Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.’

3 December 2020 Tia Carrere

I’m concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I’m doing now.

3 December 2020 Alice Englert

What’s interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams… conversations, nothing more.

3 December 2020 Stokely Carmichael

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn’t a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

3 December 2020 Quintus Ennius

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

3 December 2020 Terence McKenna

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

3 December 2020 Ludwig von Mises

Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.

3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

3 December 2020 Ian MacKaye

There are many things that people do happily that I can’t imagine why they would do it… But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I’m not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

3 December 2020 Richard Armour

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

3 December 2020 David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

3 December 2020 Scott Stapp

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion – trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

3 December 2020 Uwe Boll

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

3 December 2020 Oliver Stone

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

3 December 2020 Beverly Sills

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

3 December 2020 John Churton Collins

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

3 December 2020 Barbara Boxer

Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

3 December 2020 Danny Boyle

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I’ve always loved them because of that.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Bowen

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

3 December 2020 Joe Biden

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

3 December 2020 Isaac Watts

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 … 902 903 904 905 906 … 1,862 Next Posts»

Tags

age alone amazing art beauty best business change dad death education experience faith fear food freedom funny future god happiness health history home hope knowledge learning marriage mom money morning movies Music Nature Peace Poetry Politics relationship Religion Respect Science Society Success Truth War Women

Recommend Quotes

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Albert Einstein
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Plato
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Mark Twain
  • Aristotle
  • Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Voltaire
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • William Shakespeare
  • Victor Hugo
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Honore de Balzac
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Sophocles
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Alexander Pope
  • Confucius
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Martin Luther
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Charles Dickens
  • Ovid
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Thomas A. Edison
  • Euripides
  • John Lennon
  • Socrates
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Pope John Paul II
  • Paulo Coelho
  • Mother Teresa
  • Baruch Spinoza