3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates My mom, God rest her soul – she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
3 December 2020 Ben Nicholson At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I’m not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
3 December 2020 Floyd Patterson Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
3 December 2020 Hesiod Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
3 December 2020 Barry Mann It’s amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
3 December 2020 Leonardo DiCaprio I’ve never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It’s been a much slower process for me each time I’ve gone into a relationship.
3 December 2020 Michael Caine I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
3 December 2020 Lil Wayne I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you’re going, someone’s supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.
3 December 2020 Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
3 December 2020 Philip Seymour Hoffman There are characters in movies who I call ‘film characters.’ They don’t exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters what happens to them is not lifelike.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
3 December 2020 Debbie Macomber In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future – or a brighter present.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
3 December 2020 Patricia Ireland I know that it isn’t just violence against women, it’s how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It’s a bigger picture.
3 December 2020 Paula Abdul Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
3 December 2020 Jack Nicholson Financially, I’ve lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
3 December 2020 James Lovelock Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
3 December 2020 John McCarthy There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that’s when he doesn’t forget them.
3 December 2020 Kirsty Coventry Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It’s awesome to hear, it’s amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.
3 December 2020 Jerry B. Jenkins I fear it’s because religion is man’s attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else’s claim to have done the same.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
3 December 2020 Wayne Dyer Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
