3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn’t necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
3 December 2020 Josiah Royce Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
3 December 2020 Matt Drudge I follow my conscience – and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
3 December 2020 Franz Liszt Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
3 December 2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
3 December 2020 Wendell Pierce New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It’s not just a residual of life it’s a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It’s our culture.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
3 December 2020 Vernon Jordan I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
3 December 2020 Kirstie Alley I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.
3 December 2020 Doris Lessing I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
3 December 2020 William Osler The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
3 December 2020 Margaret Mead Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
3 December 2020 Lawrence G. Lovasik Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
