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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Michael Morpurgo

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the ‘pity of war’ as Wilfred Owen called it.

3 December 2020 Menander

Culture makes all men gentle.

3 December 2020 Lauryn Hill

Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.

3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

3 December 2020 Shawn Johnson

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

3 December 2020 Julia Roberts

Happiness isn’t happiness unless there’s a violin-playing goat.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

3 December 2020 Colin Wilson

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you’re being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as there is life there is danger.

3 December 2020 Curt Weldon

I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

3 December 2020 Nikki Haley

I think that we are at a point in our country where we’re trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

3 December 2020 Charles E. Wilson

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

3 December 2020 Bethenny Frankel

Frankly, I don’t trust any diet that doesn’t allow sugar.

3 December 2020 Diane Keaton

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

3 December 2020 James Hillman

I see happiness as a by-product. I don’t think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

3 December 2020 Alice Englert

I wouldn’t treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it’s all about the breath mints!

3 December 2020 Tom Stoppard

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

3 December 2020 Martin Van Buren

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men… in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

3 December 2020 Paul Dirac

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one’s equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

3 December 2020 Gerald R. Ford

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

3 December 2020 Mahalia Jackson

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

3 December 2020 Ayn Rand

Upper classes are a nation’s past the middle class is its future.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

3 December 2020 Tom Stoppard

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I’ve liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

3 December 2020 John Locke

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

3 December 2020 Brian Tracy

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

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