3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.
3 December 2020 Blanka Vlasic Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.
3 December 2020 Maggie Gallagher When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
3 December 2020 Billy Graham I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
3 December 2020 Major Owens I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Nabokov Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
3 December 2020 Andrew Thomas Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
3 December 2020 Julie Walters Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking ‘Can women be funny?’ People still ask that. It’s like asking: ‘Can women breathe in and out?’
3 December 2020 Joan Collins I’ve three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I’m very happily married. I’m very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn’t anything I want.
3 December 2020 Barbara Corcoran Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
3 December 2020 John Thune I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don’t apologize for that, and I don’t think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
3 December 2020 Sarah Bernhardt He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
3 December 2020 Fred Allen The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
3 December 2020 John Quincy Adams Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
3 December 2020 Kenny Chesney Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that’s what country music is. It’s not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
3 December 2020 Ernest Istook Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
3 December 2020 Jesse Ventura Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
3 December 2020 Christopher Morley Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
3 December 2020 Juvenal A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don’t ignore your son’s tender years.
3 December 2020 Curt Siodmak A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
3 December 2020 Vince Cable You can’t win with some people. If you’re not in government, you’re criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you’re criticised for wanting power. That’s the Labour party’s line of attack, and it’s a bit ridiculous.
