3 December 2020 Nellie Bly It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
3 December 2020 Jules Verne We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
3 December 2020 Barbara Jordan We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
3 December 2020 Adam Schiff In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
3 December 2020 Nancy McKeon One person I’ve always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
3 December 2020 Moon Unit Zappa I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.
3 December 2020 LL Cool J I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.
3 December 2020 Nigella Lawson And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence So long as you don’t feel life’s paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness.
3 December 2020 Sam Mendes I don’t think of it as a competition – which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn’t have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn’t use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
3 December 2020 Ellen Pompeo We’re teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.
3 December 2020 Allen Klein When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.
3 December 2020 Suze Orman A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
3 December 2020 Cate Blanchett Marriage is a risk I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
3 December 2020 Thor Heyerdahl I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn’t occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
3 December 2020 David Cameron We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It’s not worth their while going into work.
3 December 2020 Sue Monk Kidd A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
3 December 2020 Carol Bellamy In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world’s children.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
3 December 2020 John Jay Chapman Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
