3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
3 December 2020 Kurt Cobain I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
3 December 2020 James Truslow Adams There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
3 December 2020 Michel Foucault Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
3 December 2020 Chris Hadfield It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith I’m not saying I wasn’t flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg It’s easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
3 December 2020 Oksana Baiul Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Koch I love painting and music, of course. I don’t know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I’ve certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn’t read it until I was in my late 20s.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
3 December 2020 Yani Tseng You know golf is very lonely. When I’m in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won’t feel like I’m alone.
3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe My dad’s got a brilliant eye for scripts ‘cos he’s a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
3 December 2020 Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
3 December 2020 Jennifer M. Granholm This is the place where anybody – like an African American kid raised by a single mom – can be president.
3 December 2020 Walter Martin A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
3 December 2020 Ethan Hawke If you’re not a real chameleon of an actor and if you’re not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.
3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
3 December 2020 Rich Lowry Bush’s faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.
3 December 2020 Summer Altice People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn’t going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it’s all about? Jealousy.
3 December 2020 Wendy Cope Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
3 December 2020 Cat Stevens I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I’ve done it all and there’s a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
