3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
3 December 2020 Laurence Housman Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
3 December 2020 Gary Oldman I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
3 December 2020 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
3 December 2020 Ryne Sandberg I played it right because that’s what you’re supposed to do – play it right and with respect.
3 December 2020 Ben Affleck A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
3 December 2020 Phyllis McGinley Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday’s triumphant Cause.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
3 December 2020 Robert Orben I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it ‘arm around the shoulder’ humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It’s mean, mean stuff.
3 December 2020 Nicole Richie I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.
3 December 2020 Donald Glover I personally don’t believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
3 December 2020 LeBron James Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I’m still working out at my old high school.
3 December 2020 Carla Bruni My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
3 December 2020 Blair Underwood The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we’ll see that’s to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
3 December 2020 Rupert Murdoch I’m considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family – father, mother, children – is fundamental to our civilisation.
3 December 2020 Tom Vilsack President Obama’s fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.
3 December 2020 Lewis Black It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – fix it!
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
