3 December 2020 A. J. Liebling If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
3 December 2020 Billy Graham The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
3 December 2020 Brad Pitt I grew up very religious, and I don’t have a great relationship with religion.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
3 December 2020 Jim DeMint Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
3 December 2020 Rosalyn S. Yalow The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
3 December 2020 Panayiotis Zavos We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don’t participate in this.
3 December 2020 Mary Douglas I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
3 December 2020 Dick Morris Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words ‘gay marriage’ are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
3 December 2020 Chrisette Michele I have epiphanies all the time, because I’m always thinking. I’m a thinker. I’m always writing poetry, I’m always coming to conclusions.
3 December 2020 William Samuel Johnson To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.
3 December 2020 Sylvia Browne Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta they go too low.
3 December 2020 Margot Kidder I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve’s character’s emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan’s death, which I thought was exploitative.
3 December 2020 Dmitri Mendeleev Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
3 December 2020 Fran Lebowitz Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
3 December 2020 Zig Ziglar If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Yunus Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
3 December 2020 David Hume Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
3 December 2020 Frederick William Faber Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
3 December 2020 Bruce Lee A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Today’s stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
3 December 2020 Joan Collins Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
