3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
3 December 2020 Janet Jackson In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling My dad’s whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn’t have that big Indian community. I don’t really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, ‘meh, let’s talk about something else.’
3 December 2020 Terrell Owens I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.
3 December 2020 Kin Hubbard Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
3 December 2020 Alphonsus Liguori Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
3 December 2020 Anna Julia Cooper One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
3 December 2020 William Penn Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
3 December 2020 Gabrielle Reece Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
3 December 2020 Derek Walcott The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
3 December 2020 James Buchan The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain’s belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.
3 December 2020 Bill Walton I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
3 December 2020 Art Garfunkel I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I’m only just learning how to do certain things.
3 December 2020 Clara Zetkin What made women’s labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
3 December 2020 Mike Rounds Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.
3 December 2020 Tim Berners-Lee The Google algorithm was a significant development. I’ve had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
3 December 2020 James McGreevey I’m on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It’s designed to fight religious-based bigotry.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
3 December 2020 Scott Stapp And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I’ve come full circle and my heart’s finally in the right place.
3 December 2020 Chief Joseph General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
3 December 2020 Ramakrishna If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth – in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
3 December 2020 Stanislaus I Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
