December 13 Quotes

#1. - December 13, 2011, Piscataway, New Jersey, on the road with the Lady Vols, seven months after diagnosis

Pat Summitt

#2. I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of saying, "Let your characters grow. Up." And good stories for adults are about the Holding of Wisdom. Another way of saying, "Recognize you are grown up.

Jane Yolen

#3. He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

William Blake

#4. Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

Michael D. Higgins

#5. I dished out and suffered my fair share of bloody noses.

Peter Storey

#6. Meaning comes from engagement in positive work that challenges our personal capacity combined with knowledge that our positive work is making a larger contribution to the overall well-being of humanity and life on the planet.

Michael Strong

#7. I've learned that life is like a book. Sometimes we must close a chapter and begin the next one.
- Hanz, Age 13, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, December 8

R.J. Palacio

#8. All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

Edmund White

#9. Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help.

Jose Andres

#10. I, too, have my code. As long as I love you, your will must be my will. If you believe that yielding to me would be weakness, that accepting my love would destroy you, I will not touch you. You must come to me with the whole of your will, or not at all.

Robert Shea

#11. I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.

Mel Gibson

#12. As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.

Michael Greger

#13. What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Debbi Fields

#14. If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

Juliana Hatfield