3 December 2020 Aldrich Ames The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don’t understand what the real problems are.
3 December 2020 Robert Staughton Lynd There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
3 December 2020 John Doolittle Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.
3 December 2020 Freeman Dyson The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people’s hopes.
3 December 2020 Jamie Oliver Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
3 December 2020 Ivan Turgenev Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
3 December 2020 Leonard Cohen I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he’s written poetry then let the verdict be that he’s a poet.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
3 December 2020 Tom Brown, Jr. Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
3 December 2020 Aleister Crowley The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
3 December 2020 Jim Rohn Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
3 December 2020 Walter Savage Landor The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
3 December 2020 Guy Ritchie What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they’re sort of larger than life and I think I’m still suffering from that reaction.
3 December 2020 Tim Ferriss I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Branagh Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
3 December 2020 Lenny Kravitz I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
