3 December 2020 Wendell Berry It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
3 December 2020 Barbra Streisand I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
3 December 2020 Nicki Minaj My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don’t like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I’m not Nicki Minaj when I’m with them.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks There’s always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
3 December 2020 Plato No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
3 December 2020 Patti LaBelle All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don’t let anybody crush your dream.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
3 December 2020 Harvey Keitel Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler – I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
3 December 2020 David Brainerd I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.
3 December 2020 Nicole Appleton It’s my first presenting role so I’ll be nervous, but it’s going to be great fun. I can’t wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.
3 December 2020 Jerry O'Connell To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you’re talking about! I’m able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.
3 December 2020 Dar Williams Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
3 December 2020 Martin Lawrence You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.