3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
3 December 2020 Ernie Harwell I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I’m nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
3 December 2020 Dan Millman Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
3 December 2020 Nhat Hanh Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
3 December 2020 T. E. Lawrence All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
3 December 2020 Loretta Young In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
3 December 2020 Brian De Palma That’s what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
3 December 2020 George Orwell We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
3 December 2020 Andrew Motion Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
3 December 2020 Martha Graham To me, a building – if it’s beautiful – is the love of one man, he’s made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
3 December 2020 Thabo Mbeki We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can’t manage it.
3 December 2020 Larry Flynt The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
3 December 2020 Donald Knuth People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
3 December 2020 Edward Albert Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.