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Quotations of the Day: June 2008
June 30, 2008
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. —Richard Rumbold
June 29, 2008
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
June 28, 2008
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. —Luigi Pirandello
June 27, 2008
The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. —Emma Goldman
June 26, 2008
In any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle. —Pearl S. Buck
June 25, 2008
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. —George Orwell
June 24, 2008
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where history comes to life. —Norman Cousins
June 23, 2008
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. —Giambattista Vico
June 22, 2008
Insurrection—by means of guerrilla bands—is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke … It is invincible, indestructible. —Giuseppe Mazzini
June 21, 2008
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is the Other. —Jean-Paul Sartre
June 20, 2008
The world is out of shape … when there are hungry men. —Lillian Hellman
June 19, 2008
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. —Elbert Hubbard
June 18, 2008
When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand. —John Cheever
The questions as to who is bigger and who can do or not do this or that, and to whom—these questions fill the adult’s inner life far beyond the necessities and the desirabilities which he understands and for which he plans. —Erik Erikson
June 14, 2008
America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity. —Woodrow Wilson
June 13, 2008
Say to the seceded States, “Wayward sisters, depart in peace.” —Winfield Scott
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. —Jeannette Rankin
June 10, 2008
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. —Reinhold Niebuhr
June 9, 2008
In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. —Donald Trump
June 8, 2008
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. —Frank Lloyd Wright
June 7, 2008
“I shall create! If not a note, a hole. / If not an overture, a desecration.” —Gwendolyn Brooks
June 6, 2008
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. —Nathan Hale
June 5, 2008
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. —John Maynard Keynes
June 4, 2008
What we have to do … is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. —Hillary Rodham Clinton
June 3, 2008
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, / starving hysterical naked. —Allen Ginsberg
June 2, 2008
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. —Thomas Hardy
June 1, 2008
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, / And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. —John Masefield
