3 December 2020 Karl Marx History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
3 December 2020 Caskie Stinnett A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
3 December 2020 Tom Lantos Hezbollah’s contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
3 December 2020 Ryan Gosling I think it’s more interesting to see people who don’t feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don’t feel anything at all for things I’m supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It’s not always like it is in the movies.
3 December 2020 John le Carre History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
3 December 2020 George Henry Lewes Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.
3 December 2020 Kate Walsh My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I’d go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina To build a great company, which is a CEO’s job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
3 December 2020 Jo Brand People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn’t. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
3 December 2020 Edvard Munch From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
3 December 2020 Stephen Collins You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there’s a lot of rejection throughout an actor’s life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.
3 December 2020 Jessica Brown Findlay I filmed ‘Albatross’ before I got ‘Downton.’ It’s a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family’s life, like a whirlwind. She’s ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.
3 December 2020 Norm Dicks The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
3 December 2020 Kid Rock Surround yourself with good people. Whether they’re the best or not, people are capable of learning if they’ve got good hearts and they’re good souls.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
3 December 2020 Lech Walesa Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
3 December 2020 Jada Pinkett Smith I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
3 December 2020 Alexander McCall Smith One of the most destructive things that’s happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together – which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
3 December 2020 Aeschylus By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
3 December 2020 Alison Sweeney I maintain by going to spin four or five days a week. I love that I can get a solid butt-kicking in 40 minutes. I also strength train two or three times a week.
3 December 2020 Van Morrison Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
3 December 2020 Halle Berry Let me tell you something – being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
3 December 2020 Erich Fromm The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
