3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
3 December 2020 Harold Pinter I don’t intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
3 December 2020 Ann Druyan My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
3 December 2020 William Falconer Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
3 December 2020 Steve Nash You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you’re dealing with.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Hacker You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don’t mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
3 December 2020 Aishwarya Rai Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
3 December 2020 Sting I feel this music has nurtured me as I’ve been immersing myself in it. I’ve felt supported by it.
3 December 2020 Laurel Clark I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world… I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.
3 December 2020 Charles Kingsley There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
3 December 2020 Jan de Bont One of the most amazing locations I’ve ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It’s an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.
3 December 2020 Tom Clancy The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
3 December 2020 Giada De Laurentiis My grandfather’s family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.
3 December 2020 Marie de France If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
3 December 2020 Christopher Heyerdahl Certainly, anyone whom I’ve witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
3 December 2020 Joan Allen Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
3 December 2020 Omar Bongo My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
3 December 2020 Freddy Adu I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.
3 December 2020 William J. Clinton In today’s knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
3 December 2020 Cathy Rindner Tempelsman Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.
