3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
3 December 2020 Elihu Root There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
3 December 2020 George Saunders If you haven’t read you don’t have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.
3 December 2020 Jeane Kirkpatrick There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle I don’t take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
3 December 2020 John Guare And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life – it lives in the constant present.
3 December 2020 Brad Pitt A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.
3 December 2020 Olivia Williams My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he’s got great strength of character.
3 December 2020 John Foster Dulles The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
3 December 2020 Brittany Murphy I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.
3 December 2020 Paul Thomas Anderson I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I’ll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
3 December 2020 Doris Kearns Goodwin As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
3 December 2020 Paul Kagame We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
3 December 2020 Debra Messing Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we’re not open then there’s no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it’s going to happen.
3 December 2020 Bo Bennett As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
3 December 2020 Craig Bruce It’s funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists’ goals.
3 December 2020 Edward Sapir The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
3 December 2020 Kathleen Hanna Women didn’t want to be on the stage with other women because they didn’t want their bodies to be compared. They didn’t want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.
3 December 2020 Haile Gebrselassie You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, ‘Why don’t you find a personal coach or a private car?’ I can’t. Then I won’t be part of my people.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.
3 December 2020 Ethel Barrymore For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
