3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins At least the fundamentalists haven’t tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
3 December 2020 Esther Dyson Don’t leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you’re doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don’t think about technology first.
3 December 2020 Emmanuel Teney There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
3 December 2020 David Rittenhouse For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
3 December 2020 Walter Lippmann Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
3 December 2020 Miranda Lambert Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
3 December 2020 Diana Lynn I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget – not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.
3 December 2020 Coco Chanel Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ‘faith’ is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
3 December 2020 E. Joseph Cossman Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Garner I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.
3 December 2020 Liev Schreiber I was a writer. I just wasn’t a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I’d be a better actor than I would a playwright.
3 December 2020 Hans Urs von Balthasar Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman When I’m writing, I’m trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that’s how life is lived, you know?
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
3 December 2020 Brian Koslow There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
3 December 2020 Amber Heard I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.
3 December 2020 John Wooden I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
3 December 2020 Samuel Dash Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you’re there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
3 December 2020 Luke Perry It’s hard and sometimes it’s scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.
3 December 2020 Seth Green I firmly believe in marriage. It’s a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you’re thinking about divorce. You shouldn’t get married.