3 December 2020 Barack Obama As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis’ future.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
3 December 2020 Ann Coulter When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there’s a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
3 December 2020 Christopher Marlowe O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
3 December 2020 Kathryn Bigelow If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
3 December 2020 Mike Johanns Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that’s a real success story for us.
3 December 2020 Clifton Fadiman A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.
3 December 2020 John le Carre In every war zone that I’ve been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
3 December 2020 Barbara Kruger Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
3 December 2020 Sun Tzu The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
3 December 2020 Dirk Benedict Hollywood… a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
3 December 2020 Moliere All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
3 December 2020 Ursula K. Le Guin We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
3 December 2020 Jeb Bush If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we’d have a better society.
3 December 2020 Gianni Agnelli And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, ‘cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.
3 December 2020 Ravi Shankar Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.
3 December 2020 Thomas Kretschmann I’ve worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that’s my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
