3 December 2020 Josh Billings There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
3 December 2020 Alain de Botton I’m also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage – which no previous society has ever believed.
3 December 2020 Toni Morrison As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
3 December 2020 John Adams All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
3 December 2020 James Dean Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
3 December 2020 Helena Christensen A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
3 December 2020 Ron Reagan We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
3 December 2020 Maggie Kuhn Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else’s. But it’s inevitable, so you’d better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
3 December 2020 Demetri Martin Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day – like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
3 December 2020 Brian Ferneyhough There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
3 December 2020 Daniel Webster An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades – even if it’s now close to aesthetic kudzu.
3 December 2020 Ben Affleck My movies are unadorned, they’re not particularly fancy, I think they’re kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
