3 December 2020 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
3 December 2020 John R. Allen There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.
3 December 2020 Van Wyck Brooks Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn’t intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
3 December 2020 Sonia Sotomayor I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
3 December 2020 Mario Puzo What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
3 December 2020 Martha Gellhorn And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
3 December 2020 Susana Martinez My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston We’ve been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we’re conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that’s the right thing for society.
3 December 2020 Angelina Jolie Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.
3 December 2020 Eddie Van Halen I’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
3 December 2020 Sparky Anderson Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
3 December 2020 John Betjeman Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life.
3 December 2020 John Steinbeck Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
3 December 2020 Nancy Pelosi Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
3 December 2020 William Warburton Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
3 December 2020 Andrew Coyle Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
3 December 2020 Georg C. Lichtenberg It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
