Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Personality Lectures
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Personality Lectures
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) American actress
On successful marriage. Associated Press interview (1997).
Context: First of all, you have to marry the right person. If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely — by that time, you're both dead. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.
“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Stephen Vincent Benét book The Devil and Daniel Webster
Mr. Scratch
Source: The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
Context: When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on her deck. Am I not in your books and stories and beliefs, from the first settlements on? Am I not spoken of, still, in every church in New England? 'Tis true the North claims me for a Southerner and the South for a Northerner, but I am neither. I am merely an honest American like yourself — and of the best descent — for, to tell the truth, Mr. Webster, though I don't like to boast of it, my name is older in this country than yours.