3 December 2020 Martin Van Buren On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
3 December 2020 Tracey Ullman I’m still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.
3 December 2020 Marc Morial Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
3 December 2020 Abraham Pais I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o’clock the next morning I was up writing again.
3 December 2020 Plato I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
3 December 2020 Al Pacino You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
3 December 2020 Mike Leigh My work is about life as you and I experience it. You’re either lucky or you’re not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn’t.
3 December 2020 Harry Seidler After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
3 December 2020 Edward Thorndike From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
3 December 2020 Adam Levine A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
3 December 2020 Henry Ford There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
3 December 2020 Thomas Francis Meagher Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
3 December 2020 Brett Favre In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it’s all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
3 December 2020 Terry Brooks Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination – think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
3 December 2020 Natalie Gulbis Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
3 December 2020 William James We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
3 December 2020 Alan Kay Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
3 December 2020 Sigmar Gabriel If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can’t expect to have our cake and eat it too.
3 December 2020 James M. Baldwin Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
3 December 2020 William Bligh The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
