3 December 2020 Paul Ryan When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.
3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
3 December 2020 Sonny Bono Don’t cling to fame. You’re just borrowing it. It’s like money. You’re going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.
3 December 2020 Indira Gandhi A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
3 December 2020 Laura Bush The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
3 December 2020 William Shatner We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
3 December 2020 Eric Liu We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
3 December 2020 Criss Angel I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o’clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.
3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Mayhew There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
3 December 2020 Juno Temple I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I’m doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.
3 December 2020 Kris Allen My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
3 December 2020 Andre Rieu The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you’re in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
3 December 2020 Shailene Woodley You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we’re always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what’s actually in front of us.
3 December 2020 George Saunders I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I’ve done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
3 December 2020 Patty Hearst But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they’ve been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it’s come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It’s here.
3 December 2020 Alexander Woollcott I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.
3 December 2020 Mattie Stepanek While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
