3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
3 December 2020 Billy Joel I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 – to meet women.
3 December 2020 James A. Garfield Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
3 December 2020 Alan Autry Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
3 December 2020 David Lynch You’re right on the money with that. We’re all like detectives in life. There’s something at the end of the trail that we’re all looking for.
3 December 2020 Christine Gregoire There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can’t provide health care to all its people.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
3 December 2020 Harold Pinter I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
3 December 2020 Joel Silver My movies have always done pretty well in the UK – ‘The Matrix’ films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we’re working with here.
3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
3 December 2020 Heather Mills What I’ve been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.
3 December 2020 Tony Campolo Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
3 December 2020 Lucas Grabeel As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.
3 December 2020 Sue Wicks I even believe if you’re killing a team, you shouldn’t stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you’re getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.
3 December 2020 Aeschylus My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
3 December 2020 Denis Waitley Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
3 December 2020 Anatole France Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
3 December 2020 Gijs de Vries I remain optimistic. What we’ve seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
3 December 2020 M. H. Abrams When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
3 December 2020 Booboo Stewart I’ve done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I’ve also practiced extreme martial arts.
3 December 2020 Patrick Swayze What’s powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It’s seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Moon My personal feeling about science fiction is that it’s always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
3 December 2020 Agatha Christie I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
3 December 2020 Paul Nurse I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.