3 December 2020 Tony Campolo Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.
3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
3 December 2020 Gwendolyn Brooks A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
3 December 2020 Richard Holloway God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
3 December 2020 Werner Heisenberg What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
3 December 2020 Joaquin Phoenix You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier We’re losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
3 December 2020 Beyonce Knowles If I weren’t performing, I’d be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone’s problems – like a beauty therapist!
3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein I’ve been involved with violent movies, and then I’ve also said at a certain point, ‘I can’t take it anymore. Please cut it.’ You know, you’ve got to respect the filmmaker, and it’s a really tough issue.
3 December 2020 Vanessa Marcil What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Rebecca West Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
3 December 2020 Michael Tippett I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
3 December 2020 Marguerite Duras Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country.
3 December 2020 Marie Antoinette I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
3 December 2020 Frederick William Robertson The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
3 December 2020 Mac Davis If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.
3 December 2020 Agnes Repplier It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
3 December 2020 Joe Sakic Once you’re in the game and it’s a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you’re doing.
