3 December 2020 Chief Joseph It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
3 December 2020 A. J. P. Taylor He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
3 December 2020 Robert Anton Wilson You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
3 December 2020 Christopher Morley The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
3 December 2020 Florence Scovel Shinn Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
3 December 2020 Colin Farrell Anything that’s different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it’s driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character’s existence is a big help.
3 December 2020 Benedict Cumberbatch My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
3 December 2020 Ellen Ochoa Usually, girls weren’t encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.
3 December 2020 Yo-Yo Ma Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there’s got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you’re at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn’t just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
3 December 2020 Studs Terkel Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.
3 December 2020 AnnaLynne McCord All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it’s really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.
3 December 2020 Anderson Cooper Anyone who says they’re not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
3 December 2020 Lewis Hamilton I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.
3 December 2020 Margaret Cho I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.
3 December 2020 Jason Mraz I didn’t know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I’ll be all right.
3 December 2020 Matthew Lesko I’ve been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn’t pay for the dental work he needed.
3 December 2020 John Major The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
3 December 2020 Swami Vivekananda God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
