3 December 2020 Marie Curie Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
3 December 2020 Jill Clayburgh What bugs me is that movies don’t reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don’t treasure women as they get older.
3 December 2020 Anne Roiphe A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov When you’re thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that’s faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that’s science.
3 December 2020 Michael Haneke Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that’s ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.
3 December 2020 Angela Davis I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
3 December 2020 Anthony Weiner I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That’s what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama’s job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.
3 December 2020 Norman Cousins Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
3 December 2020 Pliny the Elder Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
3 December 2020 Hippolyte Taine I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
3 December 2020 Ernest Gaines What I miss today more than anything else – I don’t go to church as much anymore – but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
3 December 2020 Tyra Banks Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You’re in one minute, out the next.
3 December 2020 George Berkeley The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
3 December 2020 Ruth St. Denis The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
3 December 2020 Mel Carnahan Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
3 December 2020 David Allan Coe I’ve never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.
3 December 2020 Lin Yutang Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
3 December 2020 Ann Veneman But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts – that is, the meat of the animal itself – should not cause any risk to human health.
3 December 2020 Jerry Seinfeld There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‘I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.’
3 December 2020 David Wilkerson The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
