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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.

3 December 2020 Andrew Eldritch

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it’s increasingly an art of gesture alone.

3 December 2020 Douglass North

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

3 December 2020 Denise Mina

Comics don’t work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It’s hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

3 December 2020 Franz Kafka

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

The best is the enemy of the good.

3 December 2020 Jackie Kennedy

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where’s the harm? September 11th changed all that.

3 December 2020 Brody Armstrong

We also listen to PJ Harvey a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

3 December 2020 Abraham Zapruder

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn’t got the facilities to develop colored film.

3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

3 December 2020 William E. Gladstone

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.

3 December 2020 Pythagoras

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

3 December 2020 Oscar Levant

Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.

3 December 2020 Paul Valery

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

3 December 2020 Barbara Kingsolver

Terms like that, ‘Humane Society,’ are devised with people like me in mind, who don’t care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

3 December 2020 Corita Kent

That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring

What today’s business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

3 December 2020 Brandi Chastain

You’ll be dedicated and that’s what you should want to be in anything in life – whether it’s sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.

3 December 2020 Isabel Lucas

People instantly assume you can’t have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. – or America.

3 December 2020 Suze Orman

Like your home’s closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

3 December 2020 Bob Wells

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

3 December 2020 Steve Case

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

3 December 2020 Jillian Michaels

It’s impossible to put yourself first when you’re a mom.

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