3 December 2020 Tom Petty I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
3 December 2020 Hu Shih What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
3 December 2020 Lionel Trilling There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Theresa May We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.
3 December 2020 Zhang Ziyi When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you’re suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
3 December 2020 Talcott Parsons But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
3 December 2020 Roger McGuinn But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
3 December 2020 Ron Ben-Israel I don’t follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.
3 December 2020 Charles Simeon You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee It is now possible to quantify people’s levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
3 December 2020 Jolene Blalock I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits – men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn’t found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.
3 December 2020 Erykah Badu I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform.
3 December 2020 Fiona Shaw There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
3 December 2020 Colin Quinn You can’t make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.
3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
3 December 2020 Jane Seymour Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
3 December 2020 Diane Sawyer Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
3 December 2020 Jeane Kirkpatrick We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
3 December 2020 Gunter Grass I don’t believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it’s not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o’clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.
3 December 2020 George Eads I’m interested to go other places, I’ve been the boy in the bubble since we’ve been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.
3 December 2020 Jim Talent Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children’s diet, and the government’s role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.
3 December 2020 Thomas Merton The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
