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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Flannery O'Connor

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

3 December 2020 Laurence Tribe

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don’t pan out.

3 December 2020 Danny McBride

Jody Hill, who I created ‘Eastbound And Down’ and ‘Fist Foot Way’ with, was my best man at my wedding.

3 December 2020 Drew Carey

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

3 December 2020 Bobby Cannavale

I’ve never won an award for anything, and I think it’s weird. I mean, that’s really cool but it’s strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

3 December 2020 William James

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

3 December 2020 Emo Philips

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

3 December 2020 Lauren Graham

I didn’t grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny – those are the things I got feedback on.

3 December 2020 Margaret Mead

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

3 December 2020 Charlie Chaplin

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

3 December 2020 Buddha

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule.

3 December 2020 Dylan Thomas

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

3 December 2020 Claude Bernard

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

3 December 2020 Heather Kozar

I feel by posing for Playboy I’ve discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.

3 December 2020 John Rowland

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

3 December 2020 Christie Hefner

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

3 December 2020 Lisa Scottoline

And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She’s cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I’d be happy to be there at 86.

3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

3 December 2020 Oriana Fallaci

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton’s mediation.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

3 December 2020 Pearl S. Buck

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

3 December 2020 Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

3 December 2020 Albert Brooks

I like movies about failing.

3 December 2020 Retief Goosen

I’m not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

3 December 2020 Edward Burns

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer

The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.

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