Public Figures' Quotes!

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen

"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling the truth than adore me for telling you lies." - Pietro Aretino

"Storytelling is fundamental to the human search for meaning." - Mary Catherine Bateson

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." - Louis E. Boone

"The eyes are the key to the soul." - Lamaar Burton

"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself." - Georges Clemenceau

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

"The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures." - Sir Humphrey Davy

"I think, therefore I am." - Rene Descartes

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." - Will Durant

"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom." - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." - Indira Gandhi

"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi

"A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water." - Sidney Goff

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." - Alexander Hamilton

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that is shall never have a beginning." - John Henry Newman

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." - Katherine Hepburn

"There are times where fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain." - John Hoyer Updike

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away." - Raymond Hull

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up" - The Reverend Jesse Jackson

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye

"When one door of happiness closes another door opens, but often we looks so long at the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened." - Helen Keller

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy." - Henry Alfred Kissinger

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." - Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's

"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has a last produced a political leader worthy of assassination." - Irving Layton

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." - Oscar Levant

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?" - Marcel Marceau

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir

"Those who do not know how to weep with their who heart don't know how to laugh either." - Golda Meir

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato

"The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in have new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"Facts are stupid things." - Ronald Reagan

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans." - Ronald Reagan

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." - Robert something....

"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." - Albert Schweitzer

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light." - Albert Schweitzer

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight...The truly wise person is colorblind." - Albert Schweitzer

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." - Chief Seattle

"The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth." - Chief Seattle

"To perserve is to conquer; to procrastinate is to be conquered." - Josh Silverstein

"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular" - Adlai Stevenson

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa

"Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets." - Paul Tournier

"You can always tell you're in a third-world country because children there are still obeying their parents." - Unkown

"Carpe diem (Seize the day!)" - source unkown

"Don't worry, be happy!" - someone with a great personality

"A good friend stabs you in the front." - unkown

"Live life to the fullest." - some person

"Most accidents happen in the bathroom." - Mr. Whitmer

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." - Bern Williams

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." - Thomas Woodrow Wilson


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