3 December 2020 J. R. R. Tolkien I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
3 December 2020 Barbra Streisand I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
3 December 2020 Nicholas D. Kristof You don’t need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
3 December 2020 Barry Manilow First of all, I’ve been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn’t write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
3 December 2020 Ian Botham Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
3 December 2020 Alva Myrdal The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
3 December 2020 Steve Coogan I am of the very last generation who didn’t have computers at school. As we grow old we’ll become something of an aberration.
3 December 2020 Wolf Blitzer If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.
3 December 2020 George McGovern The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
3 December 2020 Walt Disney I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
3 December 2020 Tom Petty It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
3 December 2020 Sean Penn That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it’s pure, it means that they do too.
3 December 2020 Joe Bob Briggs As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
3 December 2020 Dwight L. Moody Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
3 December 2020 Haile Gebrselassie When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
3 December 2020 Emily Dickinson After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
3 December 2020 Matt Emmons Failure and things of this sort – you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
3 December 2020 Channing Tatum My parents couldn’t handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn’t resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.
3 December 2020 Chris Hayes My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
3 December 2020 William Howard Taft We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney It’s opportunity. It’s opportunity, not a check from government – it’s opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
3 December 2020 Waylon Jennings I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
3 December 2020 Democritus Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
