3 December 2020 David Hume Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
3 December 2020 Whoopi Goldberg It’s being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power – if you’re willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Garner My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma – like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place – and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
3 December 2020 Jim DeMint We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
3 December 2020 David O. Selznick I’m so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Dimbleby That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
3 December 2020 Norman Vincent Peale One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
3 December 2020 Tom Colicchio Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry – not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.
3 December 2020 Amy Clampitt Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
3 December 2020 Irving Langmuir The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
3 December 2020 George Sutherland The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
3 December 2020 Larry Hagman I’m sure it is, I’m not for any kind of war, we’ve been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
3 December 2020 Larry Elder Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children’s lives.
3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
3 December 2020 Julie Burchill I’ve never been nostalgic, personally or politically – if the past was so great, how come it’s history?
3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
3 December 2020 Jefferson Davis I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
3 December 2020 Clifford Stoll When I’m online, I’m alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
3 December 2020 Simon Wiesenthal Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
3 December 2020 Avril Lavigne I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
