3 December 2020 Theodore Bikel In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
3 December 2020 Lynn Samuels It’s so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.
3 December 2020 Yusef Lateef When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
3 December 2020 George Jean Nathan It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
3 December 2020 Christopher Eccleston The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.
3 December 2020 George H. W. Bush You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
3 December 2020 Irv Kupcinet What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
3 December 2020 Crystal Eastman Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
3 December 2020 Charles Trevelyan I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people’s minds better than we Liberals.
3 December 2020 Larry Elder Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs’ true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
3 December 2020 Ron Fournier Voters don’t have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.
3 December 2020 Judd Gregg We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.
3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman As a boy, I’d always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn’t what one did for a living. I got over that.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
3 December 2020 Mark Hopkins Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
3 December 2020 John Gray The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
3 December 2020 Andrew Greeley I think that the core doctrines of Christianity – the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
3 December 2020 Amy Grant It’s human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That’s just so normal.
