3 December 2020 Chris Patten I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
3 December 2020 Sarah Vowell While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
3 December 2020 Stephanie Cutter Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It’s what really interests me. I’m a competitor, but I also feel like I’m contributing, whether it’s working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social – or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
3 December 2020 John James Audubon To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
3 December 2020 Bob Lemon The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
3 December 2020 Joel Robuchon As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don’t want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
3 December 2020 Margaret Sanger War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
3 December 2020 Ann Romney I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.
3 December 2020 Tammy Baldwin Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
3 December 2020 Marianne Moore As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
3 December 2020 Steve Harvey Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it’s not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.
3 December 2020 Mark Udall Some of the best times I’ve spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I’m concerned to see today’s kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
3 December 2020 Henrik Ibsen People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
3 December 2020 Philip Emeagwali When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
3 December 2020 Buddha Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
