3 December 2020 Henry Adams Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
3 December 2020 Mel Gibson Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you’re going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn’t – now – and this is the honest truth.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
3 December 2020 John P. Kotter Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
3 December 2020 Ja Rule Who made these laws? That’s what I want to know. So that’s why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
3 December 2020 Leslie Banks In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author… I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
3 December 2020 Robert Nelson The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.
3 December 2020 John Wooden I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.
3 December 2020 Leslie Fiedler I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
3 December 2020 Tom Felton Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who’ve got an incredible talent was just a great experience.
3 December 2020 Chris Van Hollen Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.
3 December 2020 Salma Hayek You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you’re in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.
3 December 2020 James D. Watson I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
3 December 2020 Gijs de Vries You can’t get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
3 December 2020 Johannes Stark An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.
3 December 2020 Candace Bushnell You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
3 December 2020 John M. McHugh We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
