3 December 2020 James Madison Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
3 December 2020 Jerry Jeff Walker I think it’s real easy to be famous these days it’s not real easy to sustain success.
3 December 2020 William Landay I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
3 December 2020 Yoko Ono Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan Hope and change? We’re not doing that anymore. They’re doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.
3 December 2020 Robert Atkins Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
3 December 2020 George Saunders Whatever your supposed politics are – left, right – if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.
3 December 2020 Joaquin Phoenix The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don’t do well, after a while you don’t get to make any more movies.
3 December 2020 Bruce Willis I had never really dated. I’ve always been a relationship kind of person.
3 December 2020 Mike Ditka Some people are willing to pay the price and it’s the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There’s some discipline involved. There’s some sacrifices.
3 December 2020 James Gunn In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
3 December 2020 Evan Bayh I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
3 December 2020 Emily Procter Getting pregnant wasn’t easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I’d always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
3 December 2020 Bear Grylls Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
3 December 2020 Lindsey Graham I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it – what a huge problem it was and how it wasn’t a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
3 December 2020 Spike Milligan Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
3 December 2020 Ramakrishna God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.