3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family’s subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
3 December 2020 Willa Cather It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
3 December 2020 Charles Sanders Peirce Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
3 December 2020 Thomas Harrison A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
3 December 2020 Joseph Butler Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
3 December 2020 Rosemarie DeWitt I don’t want to put a pause on the rest of my life I’m really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it’s magical.
3 December 2020 Tiger Woods I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife’s family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.
3 December 2020 Frank A. Clark Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.
3 December 2020 Charles Lyell Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
3 December 2020 LL Cool J As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
3 December 2020 Enya The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova I have met with some of them – very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
3 December 2020 Laura Dern The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
3 December 2020 Ian Botham The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
3 December 2020 David Puttnam There is no education system in the world – none at all – that’s better than its average teacher.
3 December 2020 Vanessa Williams Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she’s about 5 feet – and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
3 December 2020 Wilhelm von Humboldt I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
3 December 2020 Richard P. Feynman Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
3 December 2020 Robert Kiyosaki I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
3 December 2020 Sting The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
3 December 2020 Frank Black It more or less has the shape of a love song, but ‘Crescent Moon’ reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
3 December 2020 Carl Lewis I don’t feel I’m qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
3 December 2020 Mary Astell Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
3 December 2020 Steven Seagal My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
