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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

3 December 2020 Miguel Indurain

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

3 December 2020 Karl Marx

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

3 December 2020 Marissa Mayer

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people because in a technology company it’s always about what are you going to do next.

3 December 2020 George Murray

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

3 December 2020 Terry Prachett

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

3 December 2020 Edwin Louis Cole

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change – from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

3 December 2020 Kay Panabaker

I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn’t with her.

3 December 2020 Jack Kerouac

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

3 December 2020 Paul Wellstone

When too many Americans don’t vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

3 December 2020 Jose Ortega y Gasset

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

3 December 2020 Joe Biden

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

3 December 2020 Umberto Eco

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

3 December 2020 Jillian Michaels

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

3 December 2020 Michael Landon

I’ve had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

3 December 2020 Julie Bishop

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

3 December 2020 Leighton Meester

I think you have to know how you feel when you’re sad and it’s healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

3 December 2020 Giordano Bruno

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

3 December 2020 Jane Howard

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

3 December 2020 Mary Wortley

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

3 December 2020 Alex Kapranos

I’m not a food critic, and I’m not really an authority to write anything on food.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

3 December 2020 Anne Tyler

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!

3 December 2020 Quincy Jones

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Swaggart

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

3 December 2020 Steve Burns

And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I’d just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.

3 December 2020 Romain Rolland

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

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