3 December 2020 Jane Austen It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
3 December 2020 Mattie Stepanek Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It’s not change, and it’s not hope.
3 December 2020 Jason Schwartzman As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere – it is a lonely place. It’s an isolated city in that respect because you’re driving to places alone listening to the radio.
3 December 2020 John D. Rockefeller I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
3 December 2020 Alan Dundes Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
3 December 2020 Ralph Merkle If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
3 December 2020 Thomas More ‘Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
3 December 2020 Charles Ives There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
3 December 2020 Dick Durbin There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees – not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
3 December 2020 Robert Hall In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
3 December 2020 Tom Berenger I don’t think a director should have any kids. I don’t even think it’s good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.
3 December 2020 Paul Tillich Man’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
3 December 2020 Erik Erikson Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
3 December 2020 George Orwell In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
3 December 2020 Henry Rollins Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
3 December 2020 M. Scott Peck The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
3 December 2020 Rodney Dangerfield I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.
3 December 2020 Vanessa Paradis I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise – well, hell, to even things up next time around, I’m going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
3 December 2020 Thomas Sowell The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
3 December 2020 Mario Balotelli When I wasn’t famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
