3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
3 December 2020 John Philip Sousa I have always believed that 98% of a student’s progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
3 December 2020 George Eliot It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
3 December 2020 Kesha I don’t want young people to think they can’t make a difference because they don’t have money.
3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera It’s definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it’s also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don’t know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.
3 December 2020 Francis Parker Yockey The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
3 December 2020 William Shenstone Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
3 December 2020 Steve Sabol My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers – they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.
3 December 2020 Thomas Haden Church But all actors go through the process, it’s hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They’ll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
3 December 2020 Roger Babson Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
3 December 2020 Robert Indiana I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
3 December 2020 Margaret Smith My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
3 December 2020 Ken Follett James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
3 December 2020 George Jean Nathan Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
3 December 2020 Ron White Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Lessig A culture without property, or in which creators can’t get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
3 December 2020 Peter Jennings I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
3 December 2020 Cynthia McKinney Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
