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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 George Santayana

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

3 December 2020 Christiane Amanpour

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

3 December 2020 Kate Walsh

I’ve done every diet there is.

3 December 2020 Sarah Palin

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

3 December 2020 Hal Holbrook

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that’s got true religion, several of them.

3 December 2020 Peter McWilliams

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others – at what they did or did not do.

3 December 2020 Henry Rollins

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

3 December 2020 Brian Mulroney

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

3 December 2020 John Malkovich

I don’t understand how somebody wouldn’t have a sense of humor about themselves.

3 December 2020 Daniel Petrie

There has been a change in attitude, though.

3 December 2020 Michael Caine

I don’t work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can’t refuse – and I’m not talking about money.

3 December 2020 Moliere

I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

3 December 2020 Danny Bonaduce

It’s funny, because I’m a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

3 December 2020 Chad Harbach

For many years I didn’t have health insurance.

3 December 2020 Julien Benda

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man’s future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

3 December 2020 Tom Robbins

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

3 December 2020 Ken Burns

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

3 December 2020 Vince Lombardi

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

3 December 2020 Coco Chanel

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

3 December 2020 Kurt Cobain

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

3 December 2020 Langston Hughes

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

3 December 2020 Remy de Gourmont

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

3 December 2020 Hayden Fry

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

3 December 2020 Major Taylor

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

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