3 December 2020 Albert Pike Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Roeg Movies are not scripts – movies are films they’re not books, they’re not the theatre.
3 December 2020 John L. Lewis Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
3 December 2020 Andrew Bird Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
3 December 2020 Steven Pinker Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
3 December 2020 James Larkin No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
3 December 2020 Norman Borlaug Man’s survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
3 December 2020 Lou Ferrigno The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
3 December 2020 James Buchan Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
3 December 2020 Bono Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.