3 December 2020 George Herbert Do not wait the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
3 December 2020 Charles Kettering Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
3 December 2020 Sloane Crosley My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.
3 December 2020 David Duchovny One of the scary things is that, when you’re a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you’re an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought – at least by Americans – in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
3 December 2020 Bob Taft Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.
3 December 2020 Hu Shih Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
3 December 2020 Eminem The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
3 December 2020 Franz Liszt It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
3 December 2020 Mary Oliver I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
3 December 2020 Thomas Love Peacock Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
3 December 2020 Bo Bennett Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
3 December 2020 Lafcadio Hearn For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one’s literary education very incomplete.
3 December 2020 Gustav Mahler If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
3 December 2020 Steven Weinberg Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it’s like that, then I want out.
3 December 2020 Mary Kay Ash For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
3 December 2020 Colin Hanks Keep in my mind my dad didn’t become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school – so right around the time he’s going through his big renaissance is right when I’m starting to do my high school revolting.
3 December 2020 Novalis To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
3 December 2020 Art Spiegelman The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them – the ‘physical book,’ a new phrase in our language – is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.
3 December 2020 Jack Vance I do read books. I suppose it’s more or less the same thing, but at least I’m alone and I’m an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
