3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson Confidence and superiority: It’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t.
3 December 2020 George Steiner We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day’s work at Auschwitz in the morning.
3 December 2020 Lascelles Abercrombie But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series – though not in exact repetition.
3 December 2020 Wentworth Miller I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.
3 December 2020 Simon Cowell The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
3 December 2020 Julie Burchill It may be a cliche, but it’s true – the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Bentham The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
3 December 2020 Mary Catherine Bateson Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
3 December 2020 Anish Kapoor One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
3 December 2020 Joe Biden Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.
3 December 2020 Matt Blunt In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Cage I’m the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
3 December 2020 Jon Secada And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
3 December 2020 Ron Fournier For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation’s challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.
3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
3 December 2020 Bill Kristol Shouldn’t Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
3 December 2020 Chris Christie Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That’s what I was committed to doing.
