3 December 2020 Boris Becker I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
3 December 2020 Laurette Taylor Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
3 December 2020 Manmohan Singh My top most priority is to deal with India’s massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
3 December 2020 Trey Anastasio It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.
3 December 2020 Jenson Button In my hometown there is a pub named after me – The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!
3 December 2020 Simone Weil The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
3 December 2020 Mary Chesnut Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
3 December 2020 Edith Hamilton A people’s literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
3 December 2020 Julius Erving One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
3 December 2020 Saint Teresa of Avila God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
3 December 2020 Aaliyah If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it’s always cool. The kids are amazing.
3 December 2020 Drake Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.
3 December 2020 Jean Piaget It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
3 December 2020 Keith Henson People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
3 December 2020 Rube Goldberg Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I’m recuperating now. I’m on a very bland diet. But, uh, I’m lucky, I was just lucky, that’s all.
3 December 2020 Lamar S. Smith The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
3 December 2020 Ben Barnes I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
3 December 2020 Peter Marshall If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband’s leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.
