3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
3 December 2020 Scott Turow I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
3 December 2020 Lindsey Graham We’ve got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let’s create a new legal system, so they’ll have their day in court.
3 December 2020 Heidi Klum For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don’t want the public in my house.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
3 December 2020 Frank A. Clark If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you’re done, you want to say, ‘I hope you all enjoy it.’
3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
3 December 2020 Alicia Keys My mom always said, ‘Don’t date a guy who thinks he’s prettier than you.’
3 December 2020 Andre Breton Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
3 December 2020 John Zorn I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
3 December 2020 Whittaker Chambers Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
3 December 2020 Eric Clapton Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
3 December 2020 Stephen Harper Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society… It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
3 December 2020 Tony Campolo I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
3 December 2020 Amos Bronson Alcott A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
3 December 2020 Ernst Toller Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
3 December 2020 Peter Davison Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one’s own understanding of how to understand the world.
3 December 2020 Poppy Z. Brite My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery – which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
