3 December 2020 John Trumbull As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
3 December 2020 James Madison A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
3 December 2020 Tahar Ben Jelloun Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
3 December 2020 Georg Simmel For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.
3 December 2020 Lindsay Lohan I’m 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don’t feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don’t know that I’m necessarily an addict.
3 December 2020 Anne Roiphe We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn’t always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.
3 December 2020 Vernon Howard You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
3 December 2020 Itzhak Perlman I am playing the violin, that’s all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.
3 December 2020 M. Scott Peck There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
3 December 2020 Christopher Meloni My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
3 December 2020 Nathan Deal Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.
3 December 2020 Katherine Moennig My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I’m getting better at it.
3 December 2020 Antisthenes There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
