3 December 2020 Denis Diderot When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man’s name live for thousands of years.
3 December 2020 Michael Phelps Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.
3 December 2020 Hans Urs von Balthasar We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
3 December 2020 Avery Brundage The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
3 December 2020 James Cash Penney A store’s best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.
3 December 2020 Johnny Vegas I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I’m grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old’s birthday party, you couldn’t pay me enough.
3 December 2020 Robertson Davies Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.
3 December 2020 Constance Baker Motley The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.
3 December 2020 Frederick Delius There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
3 December 2020 Mary Garden A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bunch Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy our existence challenges its life.
3 December 2020 Margaret Fuller It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
3 December 2020 Thomas Frank Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
3 December 2020 George Stephen I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn’t stop until she got home.
3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
