3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
3 December 2020 Magic Johnson All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
3 December 2020 Sarah Bernhardt Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
3 December 2020 H. Allen Smith On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
3 December 2020 James Anthony Froude Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
3 December 2020 J. M. Roberts Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
3 December 2020 Paul Theroux The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it’s the only thing they’ve been allowed to do.
3 December 2020 Johann Kaspar Lavater Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting – walled-in – I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It’s not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.
3 December 2020 Rita Rudner I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
3 December 2020 Lewis Black And I know this happens because I took economics, and I’d explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o’clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.
3 December 2020 John Locke Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
3 December 2020 Patricia Highsmith I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
3 December 2020 Ricky Williams And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.
3 December 2020 Vince Cable When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: ‘Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.’
3 December 2020 Laura Schlessinger If you’re that hypersensitive about color and don’t have a sense of humor, don’t marry out of your race.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
3 December 2020 Ralph Merkle Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
3 December 2020 Hayao Miyazaki It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.
