3 December 2020 Barbara Jordan We call ourselves public servants but I’ll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
3 December 2020 Ian Hart My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I’m way, way too old now, mate. That boat’s sailed.
3 December 2020 James Lovelock Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
3 December 2020 George Orwell On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
3 December 2020 Ali A. Saleh French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Unamuno A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio Let’s stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
3 December 2020 James Dyson If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you’ve got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
3 December 2020 Tony Robbins I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
3 December 2020 Frederick Sanger It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
3 December 2020 Chris Robinson If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would’ve said, ‘That’s not how it works.’ But nothing can be more gratifying. I’m a very hands-on dad.
3 December 2020 Barbara Feldon I’ve always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
3 December 2020 Alexander McCall Smith It’s through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
3 December 2020 Fisher Stevens I like people and get along, and I’m afraid to express my anger and my rage.
3 December 2020 Pete Townshend What I’m trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It’s my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it’s very much alive.
3 December 2020 David Byrne Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
3 December 2020 Christina Ricci I certainly hope I’m not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.
3 December 2020 Arthur Koestler Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
3 December 2020 Shane Leslie We are equally glad and surprised at Winston’s return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
3 December 2020 John Boyd Orr Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
3 December 2020 Samantha Stosur I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God’s loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
