3 December 2020 Beverly Sills My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
3 December 2020 Barbara Corcoran The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don’t build ‘wiggle room’ into the asking price. There’s a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
3 December 2020 Michael Steele We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.
3 December 2020 Chief Joseph Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jane People lose people, we lose things in our life as we’re constantly growing and changing. That’s what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It’s what you gain from that loss that makes life.
3 December 2020 Ann Richards Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
3 December 2020 Eric Bana I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I’m a bit of a romantic.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
3 December 2020 Donald Norman Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.
3 December 2020 Lillian Smith Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
3 December 2020 Jon McGregor I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with ‘poet’ written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.
3 December 2020 Azar Nafisi I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
3 December 2020 Ben Affleck I’m not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It’s not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists’ careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Tierney Mattresses! Beautiful! Let’s go buy a couple of mattresses. Give ’em to people for their birthday.
3 December 2020 George Orwell There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
3 December 2020 Alan King Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
3 December 2020 Phyllis Diller Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.
3 December 2020 Tom Daschle People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about – the economy, education and health care.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
3 December 2020 Jerzy Kosinski Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.
3 December 2020 William Ellery Channing The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
