3 December 2020 Sting Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I’d probably choose success.
3 December 2020 Ursula K. Le Guin It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
3 December 2020 Alfred Russel Wallace In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
3 December 2020 Edna O'Brien I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don’t trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera It’s an amazing thing to say, ‘I’m beautiful,’ without feeling like you’re cocky.
3 December 2020 Paul Valery Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
3 December 2020 Imran Khan If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn’t see my young son and I couldn’t see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
3 December 2020 Rico Rodriguez I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I’ve loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.
3 December 2020 Ellie Kemper Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
3 December 2020 Roy Orbison I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.
3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers’ incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
3 December 2020 William Arthur Ward The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
3 December 2020 Hank Azaria The craft Emmys are kind of the kids’ table at Thanksgiving. You’re not really invited to the big dance. It’s still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
3 December 2020 Paul Nurse Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
3 December 2020 Ralph Peters The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
3 December 2020 Kirsten Dunst I’d like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn’t matter, but it doesn’t hurt.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
