3 December 2020 Jim Broadbent I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn’t a sad day in my life when she resigned.
3 December 2020 Georgina Chapman One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother’s engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It’s a Victorian-style setting that’s closed in the back, so it doesn’t sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
3 December 2020 Jim Harrison The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
3 December 2020 Harold Kushner Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
3 December 2020 Abraham Joshua Heschel Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
3 December 2020 Doris Lessing In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
3 December 2020 Sloane Crosley Our culture’s obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Warren Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
3 December 2020 Simon Armitage I’d never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I’ve always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
3 December 2020 Sargent Shriver Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
3 December 2020 Isaac Watts Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
3 December 2020 Horace Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas French is a foreign language, but I’ve been speaking it since I was 18 so it’s second nature to me.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Onassis We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
3 December 2020 Joseph Barber Lightfoot The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
3 December 2020 Thomas Nashe Our learning ought to be our lives’ amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
3 December 2020 John Naisbitt In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
3 December 2020 Tim Scott As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.
