3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
3 December 2020 Albert J. Nock Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
3 December 2020 Peter Davison It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can’t do in prose.
3 December 2020 Paul Auster All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
3 December 2020 Keith Thibodeaux Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
3 December 2020 Bryan Adams I always knew I’d be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn’t know if I’d be successful at it, but I knew I’d be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
3 December 2020 Eric Alterman Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
3 December 2020 Edward R. Murrow The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
3 December 2020 Roland Joffe Even if we don’t know it or aren’t aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
3 December 2020 R. D. Laing We are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
3 December 2020 Carl Lewis The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
3 December 2020 Henry Ford I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
3 December 2020 John Drinkwater Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
3 December 2020 William Glasser This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
3 December 2020 Yasser Arafat Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
3 December 2020 Timothy Radcliffe I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity’s relationship with God.
3 December 2020 Zac Efron I’m very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog – It’s the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon People react to fear, not love they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.
3 December 2020 Cal Thomas People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
3 December 2020 Norman Cousins The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
3 December 2020 Tom Perrotta When I was writing ‘The Abstinence Teacher,’ I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
3 December 2020 Aaron Spelling A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it’s tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
