3 December 2020 Joe Nichols The Dalai Lama’s entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.
3 December 2020 Cardinal Richelieu Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
3 December 2020 George McGovern Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it’s our partner.
3 December 2020 Boris Pasternak Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
3 December 2020 Jon Brion If we’re given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it’s amazing how good we are at it.
3 December 2020 Angus Wilson I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
3 December 2020 Patricia Richardson Instead of yelling and spanking, which don’t work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention – turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
3 December 2020 Lionel Blue I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can’t be learnt in lecture halls.
3 December 2020 Michael Graves In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
3 December 2020 Katharine Hepburn Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
3 December 2020 Casey Stengel Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
3 December 2020 Tony Blair In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it’s always about the next challenge.
3 December 2020 Sarah Bernhardt The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
3 December 2020 Avril Lavigne I don’t want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don’t even know if I could handle a dog right now. I’m so not ready. Someday I’ll be a mom but not until I’m in my 30s.
3 December 2020 Seth Godin The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
3 December 2020 Robert Bork The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
3 December 2020 John Boehner They know the importance of their mission and of America’s commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
3 December 2020 Erykah Badu Personally, I don’t choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That’s between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
3 December 2020 Gustav Mahler Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
