3 December 2020 Saul Bellow A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
3 December 2020 Dorothy Thompson The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi One person alone can’t do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
3 December 2020 Christina Ricci You won’t see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
3 December 2020 Picabo Street I’m social and I meet people and talk to people but I’m not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I’m just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I’m around and who I cross paths with.
3 December 2020 Robert Toombs We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
3 December 2020 Alison Sweeney I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It’s important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.
3 December 2020 Michelle Pfeiffer Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we’ve set aside enough money for our kid’s therapy.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
3 December 2020 Ashley Tisdale I don’t drink, and I don’t smoke. It’s a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.
3 December 2020 James MacGregor Burns Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
3 December 2020 John Conyers Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.
3 December 2020 Helen Frankenthaler Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
3 December 2020 Seth Rogen I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone’s spots.
3 December 2020 Bela Lugosi If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
3 December 2020 Mariah Carey You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.’
3 December 2020 Ricky Williams When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you’re not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.