3 December 2020 Laura Schlessinger The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
3 December 2020 Xenophon Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
3 December 2020 Leonard Baskin I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life… nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.
3 December 2020 John Garamendi Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn’t work.
3 December 2020 Sidney Blumenthal On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
3 December 2020 Rupert Everett Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.
3 December 2020 Margaret Walker The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
3 December 2020 Carl Hiaasen Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you’re on the front lines.
3 December 2020 Star Jones No, you’re not allowed to be bossy when you’re married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
3 December 2020 Dorothy Day Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
3 December 2020 Dorothy Dix I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
3 December 2020 Cheryl Tiegs I’ve had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don’t think I will get married again.
3 December 2020 George Washington My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
3 December 2020 Billy Ray Cyrus Well, I’ve never left my faith – but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God’s love and God’s forgiveness.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
3 December 2020 Molly Ivins So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
3 December 2020 William Wordsworth I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
3 December 2020 Richard Eyre Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
3 December 2020 Yann Martel I love Canada. It’s a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
3 December 2020 Jerry West You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I’m willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
3 December 2020 Milos Forman Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
