3 December 2020 Franz Schubert Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
3 December 2020 Rainer Maria Rilke For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
3 December 2020 Tony Blair In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
3 December 2020 Jon Stewart The seven marvels that best represent man’s achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote… so look for Howard Stern’s Private Parts to come in No. 1.
3 December 2020 Will Durst There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation’s history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
3 December 2020 Shaquille O'Neal I’m a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.
3 December 2020 Melanie Laurent Everybody just asks me ‘Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?’ First, I don’t know. Second, I never dreamed about that I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors – yes.
3 December 2020 Giancarlo Esposito It’s certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
3 December 2020 John Forsythe Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I’ve learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.
3 December 2020 Mario Andretti I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
3 December 2020 Vernon Howard A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby Every success story has a parent who says, ‘over my dead body.’ Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you’re acting the fool, ‘you know I worry about you sometimes.’
3 December 2020 Mia Love The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.
3 December 2020 David Deutsch Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
3 December 2020 Plato The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
3 December 2020 John Jay Chapman The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
3 December 2020 Michael Frayn A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.
3 December 2020 Jane Roberts Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
3 December 2020 Snoop Dogg I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.
