3 December 2020 Denis Waitley Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
3 December 2020 Dave Matthews I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
3 December 2020 Mika Brzezinski My salary situation at ‘Morning Joe’ wasn’t right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I’d made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
3 December 2020 Paul Tsongas Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
3 December 2020 Eric Holder Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
3 December 2020 Jack Kerouac A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
3 December 2020 Gary Vaynerchuk I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn’t due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
3 December 2020 Lara St. John Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one’s children is paramount.
3 December 2020 Meister Eckhart Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
3 December 2020 Francois Truffaut When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it’s just wonderful.
3 December 2020 Suze Orman Opposites may attract, but I wouldn’t put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.
3 December 2020 Arlen Specter The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
3 December 2020 John Cleese I can’t tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it’s like going to somebody else’s Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you’re there and you’re not quite sure what you’re supposed to be doing.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation’s history, the President’s policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
3 December 2020 LeVar Burton I’ve always been interested in gadgets and technology and I’ve always been a reader.
3 December 2020 Gunter Grass My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm’s fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of ‘Tom Thumb’ during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
3 December 2020 Abbe Pierre The question I asked Georges has now become a general one – You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
3 December 2020 John Keats Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
3 December 2020 Ian St. John I don’t want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn’t sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
