3 December 2020 Walter Kaufmann The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha’s atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
3 December 2020 Cathy McMorris Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.
3 December 2020 Barbara Kingsolver I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can’t imagine what kind of writer I’d be if I didn’t have my kids.
3 December 2020 Peter Tosh And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
3 December 2020 Jessica Simpson I don’t ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.
3 December 2020 John Podhoretz What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films – their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
3 December 2020 Bruce Catton Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.
3 December 2020 A. R. Ammons The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don’t know.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What’s more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.
3 December 2020 Brit Marling I’ve found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It’s ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
3 December 2020 Michelle Pfeiffer For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard – that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
3 December 2020 Gary Ross I don’t understand people who dream in black and white. I just don’t get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
3 December 2020 Ed Westwick I’ve been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
3 December 2020 Corey Feldman My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.
3 December 2020 Georg C. Lichtenberg Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
3 December 2020 Muqtada al Sadr Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.