3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
3 December 2020 Mia Hamm I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
3 December 2020 Courtney Thorne Smith You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I’m so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
3 December 2020 John Keats I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
3 December 2020 Evelyn Waugh He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
3 December 2020 Ringo Starr I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that’s the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
3 December 2020 Zac Efron Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm. I would just like to be more like Troy, because he’s so cool.
3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas – it’s always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
3 December 2020 Virginia Satir Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Coe I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I’m not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.
3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
3 December 2020 Fred G. Gosman The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
3 December 2020 Peter Medawar Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
3 December 2020 Erskine Bowles You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses… I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don’t just deserve it. I have to earn it.
3 December 2020 James Dyson I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you’re going to do when you’ve got your degree.
3 December 2020 Kristen Stewart Sure, ‘Twilight’ is really huge right now and everybody’s freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I’m used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.
3 December 2020 Ernest Holmes The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
3 December 2020 Joe Slovo There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust – good Christians and good Communists.
3 December 2020 Trey Parker I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
3 December 2020 Harold Nicolson The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
3 December 2020 Jodie Foster But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
