3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Kramnik Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
3 December 2020 Jacques Lacan The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
3 December 2020 John Boehner While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
3 December 2020 Baal Shem Tov The world is new to us every morning – this is God’s gift and every man should believe he is reborn each day.
3 December 2020 John Barton In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
3 December 2020 Stephen Harper The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
3 December 2020 Steven Soderbergh There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don’t.
3 December 2020 Johnny Knoxville A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
3 December 2020 Christopher Fry Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
3 December 2020 James Madison To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
3 December 2020 Charles W. Pickering A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
3 December 2020 Russell Baker You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there’s a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.
3 December 2020 Joseph J. Ellis And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
3 December 2020 Larry Hagman There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
3 December 2020 Theophile Gautier It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
3 December 2020 James Stockdale He’s a novice, but he’s had these – he’s experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started – he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
3 December 2020 Roger Daltrey We tend to think of age only in time, but I don’t think it has much to do with time at all there’s a whole load of other things. I’ve met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
