3 December 2020 Kelly Clarkson I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope – I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God.
3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
3 December 2020 J. G. Ballard The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
3 December 2020 Bobby Jindal On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
3 December 2020 Alvar Aalto Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.
3 December 2020 John Burns In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
3 December 2020 Adela Florence Nicolson I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
3 December 2020 Michelle Obama The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
3 December 2020 Sean O'Casey There’s no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
3 December 2020 Sam Ewing Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
3 December 2020 William Hague People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
3 December 2020 Roger Daltrey I don’t think there’s any way it could have failed. We don’t know failure in this band. We didn’t know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
3 December 2020 Randolph Bourne Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
3 December 2020 Morris West If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
