3 December 2020 David Crystal Academics don’t normally manage to alter people’s way of thinking through their strength of argument.
3 December 2020 Joe Adcock Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
3 December 2020 Henry Charles Carey The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
3 December 2020 Lee Trevino Only bad golfers are lucky. They’re the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.
3 December 2020 Lloyd Alexander We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
3 December 2020 Mary Tyler Moore Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion’s imminent demise.
3 December 2020 Brandy Norwood I’ve been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I’m working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I’ve done so far.
3 December 2020 Christopher Knight To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it’s a thrill to start a friendship even up.
3 December 2020 Horace To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
3 December 2020 Joseph Butler The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
3 December 2020 David Wilkerson The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
3 December 2020 Agatha Christie Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
3 December 2020 David Amram Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
3 December 2020 Katherine Heigl I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
3 December 2020 Charles Rangel Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. I love my wife and I know she loves me. We’re best friends. We’re just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It’s a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.
3 December 2020 Thomas J. Watson Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
3 December 2020 Charlie Simpson There were a few 6th form girls that I got with when I was I the 6th form, they were really nice, so that was cool.
