3 December 2020 Saskya Pandita Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
3 December 2020 Claire Danes I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who’s from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn’t actively shooting, there’s a lot of peripheral work.
3 December 2020 Elmer Bernstein I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.
3 December 2020 George Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
3 December 2020 Denzel Washington My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
3 December 2020 Tom Stoppard You can’t but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it’s a narrative art form.
3 December 2020 Abbas Kiarostami Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, ‘Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.’ That’s not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, ‘What happened?’ but rather, ‘How then shall I live?’ And it’s only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
3 December 2020 Joe DiMaggio The phrase ‘off with the crack of the bat’, while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
3 December 2020 Caleb Carr I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I’m just trying to understand where it came from.
3 December 2020 Groucho Marx Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
3 December 2020 Joseph Stalin It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
3 December 2020 David K. Shipler Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
3 December 2020 Kristen Stewart Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I’ve succeeded, if I’m doing something that makes me happy and I’m not lying to anybody. I’m not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.
3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
3 December 2020 Jayne Meadows My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn’t talk she sang. She was a tower of strength.
3 December 2020 Thornton Wilder The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
3 December 2020 Dean Koontz Somebody asked me about the current choice we’re being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it’s like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
3 December 2020 Lope de Vega Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as ’tis today.
3 December 2020 Tom Clancy Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
