3 December 2020 Pat Brown While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ‘Let no one be called happy till his death’ to which I would add, ‘Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.’
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.
3 December 2020 Kenneth G. Wilson My grandfather on my mother’s side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell Climate change is a global issue – from the point of view of the Earth’s climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.
3 December 2020 Sherwood Eddy Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
3 December 2020 Konrad Lorenz Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
3 December 2020 Brian Sandoval Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
3 December 2020 Wislawa Szymborska Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
3 December 2020 Celine Dion I was not a good-lookin’ girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn’t pretty. I wasn’t cool.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
3 December 2020 G. M. Trevelyan Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
3 December 2020 Diane Wakoski But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
3 December 2020 Cesar Chavez When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
3 December 2020 Emily Dickinson If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
3 December 2020 Tallulah Bankhead I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
3 December 2020 John Adams The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
3 December 2020 Denis Waitley Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
3 December 2020 Yoshihiko Noda Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
3 December 2020 Ron White I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.