3 December 2020 Peter Singer Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who ‘hate freedom’. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
3 December 2020 Shimon Peres The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
3 December 2020 Kofi Annan Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
3 December 2020 Yann Martel Fanatics do not have faith – they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
3 December 2020 Ernst Mach Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.
3 December 2020 Duke Ellington Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
3 December 2020 Penny Marshall I’ve directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.
3 December 2020 Parker Stevenson I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we’d all pull together.
3 December 2020 Julius Caesar If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
3 December 2020 John Sununu The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.
3 December 2020 Colin Firth My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I’ve sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there’s no virtue in that it’s the way one is raised.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf I’ve had to deal with all different types of situations – positive and negative and extremes of both.
3 December 2020 Fyodor Dostoevsky One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
3 December 2020 Stone Gossard I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It’s just amazing to me now that we’d walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
3 December 2020 Elena Anaya I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It’s been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
3 December 2020 Michael Gove The big shift in approach on education that we are taking – which is different from what happened before – is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
3 December 2020 Pete Townshend I don’t really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
3 December 2020 Maria Mitchell We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
3 December 2020 Ezra Stiles A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
3 December 2020 Fanny Kemble Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
