3 December 2020 Eubie Blake Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
3 December 2020 John Dobbin Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don’t live up to their promises.
3 December 2020 Erykah Badu What does music mean to me? I don’t think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It’s my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
3 December 2020 Vaclav Havel Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
3 December 2020 Peter York If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
3 December 2020 John Stossel Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
3 December 2020 Daniel Inouye Mr. Gonzales’ failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
3 December 2020 Twyla Tharp The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
3 December 2020 Matthew Simpson Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.
3 December 2020 Dean Koontz I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life’s too short for that. I don’t really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it’s Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
3 December 2020 Neil Armstrong I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton My wish for the new millennium is for all children… to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Yunus Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
