3 December 2020 David Suzuki In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it’s for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
3 December 2020 Mark Burnett How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they’ve got that great business idea.
3 December 2020 J. B. Priestley When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
3 December 2020 Miguel Jontel Pimentel I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I’m so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
3 December 2020 Marie Osmond There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says ‘no,’ then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.
3 December 2020 Christopher Morley From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
3 December 2020 Lascelles Abercrombie But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
3 December 2020 Ben Affleck I’m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they’re dating or what clothes they’re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
3 December 2020 Edgar R. Fiedler The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
3 December 2020 Stokely Carmichael Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
3 December 2020 Lois Capps We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.
3 December 2020 Willie Aames I get scared to death when I see people who say they’ve found Jesus Christ, and they’re out there, and I wonder, who’s teaching them? Who’s mentoring them?
3 December 2020 Alphonse de Lamartine Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
3 December 2020 Earl Warren In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
3 December 2020 Francine Prose I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.
3 December 2020 David Carradine Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.
3 December 2020 Stanley Kubrick Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hardy My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
3 December 2020 Frank Carson I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
3 December 2020 Pam Grier Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don’t know their names, they don’t care about you, you don’t care about them.
3 December 2020 Margaret Mead Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
3 December 2020 James Otis Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
3 December 2020 Andrew Sullivan You know, American citizens, I don’t think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.
3 December 2020 J. Donald Walters Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
