3 December 2020 Pietro Aretino I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
3 December 2020 Conrad Black For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
3 December 2020 Al Unser Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.
3 December 2020 Jacob Bronowski We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
3 December 2020 Confucius Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.
3 December 2020 Wilhelm Reich The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
3 December 2020 Beyonce Knowles I’ve worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.
3 December 2020 Stephen Harper We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.
3 December 2020 Jack LaLanne If you’ve got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You’ve got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
3 December 2020 Voltaire He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina The truth is, I’m proud of the life I’ve lived so far, and though I’ve made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
3 December 2020 Jamie Bell Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn’t really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
3 December 2020 Nicole Kidman You’ve just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn’t help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it’s easy to say and harder to do.
3 December 2020 May Sarton Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
3 December 2020 Khaleda Zia It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
3 December 2020 Chris Ware I don’t think there’s any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don’t like or respect in at least some way or another. We’re all marginal laborers – we’re practically medical oddities – so I don’t see why we can’t all be nice to each other.
3 December 2020 Pat Robertson I’m a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don’t understand why in America it’s such a big deal that we won’t read the Koran and we won’t look at history.
3 December 2020 Saint Teresa of Avila I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
