3 December 2020 Barbara Kingsolver The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
3 December 2020 Ernest Istook The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
3 December 2020 Dan Savage How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they’re somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
3 December 2020 Laurent Fabius The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.
3 December 2020 William James No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
3 December 2020 Arthur Holly Compton To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
3 December 2020 Robert Staughton Lynd Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
3 December 2020 Julie Burchill My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my ‘Top Ten’ friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
3 December 2020 Madonna Ciccone I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
3 December 2020 Jesse Ventura The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all. It doesn’t guarantee our rights to charity.
3 December 2020 Kevyn Aucoin Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
3 December 2020 Louis Aragon O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
3 December 2020 Max Muller Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul with all his strength and with all his will.
3 December 2020 Hendrik Willem Van Loon The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
3 December 2020 Marcel Pagnol The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
3 December 2020 Ravi Shankar Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it’s a good, earned feeling now.
3 December 2020 Larry Niven I’d visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
