3 December 2020 Nigel Farage Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
3 December 2020 Walter Bagehot The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
3 December 2020 Kid Rock You’ve got to work hard for your success and you’ve got to have a steady presence. That’s the secret.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what’s it all about.
3 December 2020 Thomas Sowell People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
3 December 2020 Laura Linney It is always good to explore the stuff you don’t agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn’t know.
3 December 2020 Louis L'Amour For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
3 December 2020 Meriwether Lewis The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper’s landing, opposite another island.
3 December 2020 Halle Berry If you really want to be competitive in today’s market you have to be in movies that make money.
3 December 2020 Jason Isaacs I don’t know if it’s a romantic comedy but I’m in the beginning of the first of the season of ‘The West Wing.’ We shot it last year. I don’t know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I’ll jump on it.
3 December 2020 Max Beerbohm We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
3 December 2020 James Hillman Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don’t want to lose. Without time for loss, we don’t have time for soul.
3 December 2020 Mohamed ElBaradei The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
3 December 2020 Buck Owens My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin’ her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting’ to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
3 December 2020 Curt Schilling I think I’ve earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
3 December 2020 James Wolcott Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
3 December 2020 John C. Maxwell The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
3 December 2020 Melanie Fiona I’m a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.
3 December 2020 Grantland Rice Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
3 December 2020 Miuccia Prada I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
3 December 2020 Jessica Cutler I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don’t know why anyone would want to be famous. I can’t imagine what need that would fill.
3 December 2020 David McCullough History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.