3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Branden The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
3 December 2020 Hiawatha Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
3 December 2020 Hugh Leonard I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there’s nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There’s a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
3 December 2020 Jean Baudrillard Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
3 December 2020 Al Franken The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
3 December 2020 Toni Braxton Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.
3 December 2020 Eugenio Montale Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn I know there’s some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
3 December 2020 John Krasinski I know I’m guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don’t really prepare for how much work marriage really is.
3 December 2020 Gerard De Nerval When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind’s disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina I think what’s fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven’t played before.
3 December 2020 Rashida Jones Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.
3 December 2020 Robert Moog To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.
3 December 2020 Marguerite Moreau There’s an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren’t as important as we make them sometimes.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Wallace What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.
3 December 2020 John Wooden If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
3 December 2020 William Feather Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
3 December 2020 Dorthea Brande All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
3 December 2020 Sophie Ellis-Bextor I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I’ve inherited both sides.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
3 December 2020 Jean Kerr You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
3 December 2020 Roger McGough If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because you’ve done a comedy performance but because you’re talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
