3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
3 December 2020 Paul Prudhomme I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes – click, click, click.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
3 December 2020 Morihei Ueshiba One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
3 December 2020 Adam Ant Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
3 December 2020 Julien Benda Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
3 December 2020 Joyce Brothers The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
3 December 2020 Liam Neeson For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
3 December 2020 Jake Roberts It’s the sad thing about entertainment, it’s not always about who is the best.
3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.
3 December 2020 Henry Fielding A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
3 December 2020 Rem Koolhaas People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that’s both liberating and alarming.
3 December 2020 Lucinda Williams Just because I’m talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn’t mean that I’m sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.
3 December 2020 Robert Heller The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
3 December 2020 Ariel Winter If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. She’s always there making sure I’m all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, she’ll go to dinner next door.
3 December 2020 Marya Mannes Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
3 December 2020 Dante Alighieri There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
3 December 2020 Larry Bird I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.