3 December 2020 Abbe Pierre It’s true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
3 December 2020 Patricia Cornwell I didn’t invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
3 December 2020 Barry Goldwater I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
3 December 2020 Joseph Franklin Rutherford Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
3 December 2020 Edward Koch I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.
3 December 2020 Liam Neeson Before ‘Schindler’s List,’ I wouldn’t have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
3 December 2020 William James The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
3 December 2020 Jesus Christ If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
3 December 2020 Yogi Berra I don’t blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to ’em? More power to ’em.
3 December 2020 Harri Holkeri If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there’s a different relationship with each of them.
3 December 2020 Andrew Greeley Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
3 December 2020 Anne Sullivan Macy We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
3 December 2020 Ken Thompson I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren’t really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.
3 December 2020 Henny Youngman If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
3 December 2020 Tiger Woods I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn’t have to go far to find them.
3 December 2020 Anthony Kiedis I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.