3 December 2020 Jo Nesbo Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before – to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Robert Livingstone I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can’t do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you – and it’s often a long haul.
3 December 2020 David Deutsch Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Koch I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz Today’s interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
3 December 2020 Diana Ross They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
3 December 2020 John Mellencamp Do I think it’s OK to fight authority as long as you’re only talking about the high school teacher? No.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
3 December 2020 Danny Glover If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism – about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
3 December 2020 Louis C. K. If you’re a woman and a guy’s ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.
3 December 2020 Junior Seau Leadership can’t be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can’t fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
3 December 2020 Ruben Blades I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
3 December 2020 William Jennings Bryan If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
3 December 2020 Dave Matthews Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
3 December 2020 Samuel Adams Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
3 December 2020 Mason Cooley I’m being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
3 December 2020 Carly Simon A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
3 December 2020 Steve Buscemi Communication is the key, and it’s one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
3 December 2020 Kofi Annan If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
3 December 2020 Joaquin Phoenix With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.
3 December 2020 Martin Van Buren The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
