3 December 2020 An Wang You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
3 December 2020 Toni Morrison Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
3 December 2020 Theodore Bikel Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
3 December 2020 Charles Darwin I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
3 December 2020 Ben Okri Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible.
3 December 2020 Jeffery Deaver I’ve always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
3 December 2020 Esther Williams The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
3 December 2020 Orlando Bloom Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
3 December 2020 Cher Women have to harness their power – its absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
3 December 2020 Robert Morgan Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
3 December 2020 Matthew Lewis I think as an actor you’re always learning, you’re always trying to experience more things.
3 December 2020 Amanda Burton Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
3 December 2020 Pitbull One night I’ll be in Los Angeles and it’ll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I’ll go to Fresno and it’ll be an all-black crowd. To me, that’s the beauty of the music.
3 December 2020 Julie Walters I remember Michael saying, ‘Rich and famous? It’s much better to be just rich’. I didn’t quite get it to begin with. But he’s right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you’ve no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
3 December 2020 Esperanza Spalding The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Walter Scott There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.
3 December 2020 Aristotle But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
