3 December 2020 Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
3 December 2020 George Eliot There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
3 December 2020 Jordana Brewster People spend so much time in their cars, and it’s a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.
3 December 2020 Ruben Studdard I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It’s really cool.
3 December 2020 Chris Anderson The first stage in a technology’s advance is that it’ll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it’s successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
3 December 2020 Walter Pater That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
3 December 2020 Ellen DeGeneres I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
3 December 2020 Peter Stuyvesant The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors’ possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
3 December 2020 K. Eric Drexler Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines – of molecular machines that are part of replicators – and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
3 December 2020 Ella Wheeler Wilcox All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‘Oh no, it’s on the house.’
3 December 2020 Lesley Visser My schedule has slowed a little. I’ve cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.
3 December 2020 Sylvester Stallone I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
3 December 2020 Anthony Mackie The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I’ve never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.
3 December 2020 Mary Baker Eddy Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
3 December 2020 Emir Kusturica That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That’s not possible.
3 December 2020 Henri Poincare It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
