3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
3 December 2020 Alan Clark There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
3 December 2020 Daniel Pipes In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that’s the long term.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
3 December 2020 Howard Cosell Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
3 December 2020 Herman Kahn Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
3 December 2020 Jack Vance Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn’t a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
3 December 2020 Harold Brodkey I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time’s chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
3 December 2020 Tim Heidecker I’m always in situations where you can’t be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
3 December 2020 Ezra Koenig It’s cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.
3 December 2020 Steve Prefontaine I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
3 December 2020 Charles Kettering The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
3 December 2020 Charles Barkley One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
3 December 2020 W. E. B. Du Bois But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
3 December 2020 Bernard Meltzer A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
3 December 2020 Danica Patrick Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.
3 December 2020 Byron Dorgan I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
3 December 2020 Charles Simic Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
3 December 2020 Soulja Boy When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.
