3 December 2020 Harold Bloom We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
3 December 2020 Leo Buscaglia Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
3 December 2020 Marvin Hamlisch I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister’s lessons.
3 December 2020 John R. Allen Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what’s critical is that Afghanistan’s relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
3 December 2020 Theodore Sturgeon You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.
3 December 2020 Bonnie Hunt I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.
3 December 2020 Virginia Satir What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
3 December 2020 Paul Simon Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
3 December 2020 John Dryden Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
3 December 2020 Oriana Fallaci I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
3 December 2020 Stephen Ambrose I’m no politician. I’m an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
3 December 2020 Sherrod Brown Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.
3 December 2020 James Caan I think we have to believe in things we don’t see. That’s really important for all of us, whether it’s your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That’s pretty much what it’s about.
3 December 2020 Anthony Quinn Thirteen, 13 children, and I love – I love them all. And I think I’ve been a good father to all of them.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
3 December 2020 Seann William Scott I’m never afraid to try something if I think it’s funny. And I know I’ll regret it if I don’t.
3 December 2020 Chester W. Nimitz Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
3 December 2020 Henry Adams American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
3 December 2020 Hu Jintao China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
3 December 2020 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you’re the author of your own destiny.
3 December 2020 Jay-Z I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
3 December 2020 Jules Renard Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
3 December 2020 Grantland Rice Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
3 December 2020 Ed Gillespie If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn’t run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We’re going to run on the president’s strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
