3 December 2020 Frank Murphy We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.
3 December 2020 Samuel Smiles Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
3 December 2020 Stephen King We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
3 December 2020 Hugh Laurie You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.
3 December 2020 Daniel Barenboim Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don’t know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
3 December 2020 Joan Rivers I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was ‘the man goes on top and the woman underneath.’ For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
3 December 2020 Clare Boothe Luce Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
3 December 2020 W. E. B. Du Bois One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
3 December 2020 Doug Larson If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
3 December 2020 Jay Leno The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
3 December 2020 Michael Bay Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
3 December 2020 Ginnifer Goodwin When I’m doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I’m like, ‘I don’t want to go to a club with you, dude. I mean, I think you’re rad, and if you want to come play Scrabble with me, that’s amazing.’
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland I know it’s not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
3 December 2020 Jason Bateman People have often asked if I’m gay because I don’t go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
3 December 2020 Seamus Heaney The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
3 December 2020 Robert Jay Lifton As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
3 December 2020 Ezra Cornell I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
