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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Georg Buchner

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

3 December 2020 Jules Renard

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

3 December 2020 Carlos Salinas

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

3 December 2020 Helen Clark

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

3 December 2020 Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

3 December 2020 Andrew Shue

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

3 December 2020 Ethel Waters

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn’t live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

3 December 2020 David Hume

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

3 December 2020 Thomas Hardy

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

3 December 2020 Niklaus Wirth

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

3 December 2020 Ville Valo

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It’s not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It’s about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

3 December 2020 Sanjay Dutt

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

3 December 2020 Daniel Dennett

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently – the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs ‘good tricks.’

3 December 2020 Lena Dunham

My uncle’s a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, ‘That’s cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.’

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

3 December 2020 Bill Vaughan

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

3 December 2020 Robert Byrne

Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.’

3 December 2020 E. M. Forster

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

3 December 2020 Barry Cornwall

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

3 December 2020 Debbi Fields

I’ve never felt like I was in the cookie business. I’ve always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

3 December 2020 Penelope Cruz

I don’t know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

3 December 2020 Criss Angel

I’m actually tougher on myself as I get older. It’s a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can’t buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.

3 December 2020 Ernest Dimnet

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

3 December 2020 Xavier Niel

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

3 December 2020 Graham Greene

We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.

3 December 2020 Missy Franklin

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don’t want that to affect me too much.

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