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Quotations of the Day: May 2008
May 31, 2008
If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system. —Patricia Harris
May 30, 2008
All day long and all night through, / One thing only must I do: / Quench my pride and cool my blood, / Lest I perish in the flood. —Countee Cullen
May 29, 2008
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. —John F. Kennedy
May 28, 2008
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football’s place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority. —Walter Smith
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. —Dorothea Lange
May 25, 2008
None shall rule but the humble, / And none but Toil shall have. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 24, 2008
Once you cross that Brooklyn Bridge, you’re out of this world. The only noise you hear is the hardening of your arteries. —Dudley Nichols
May 23, 2008
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that “we choose death.” —Barbara Ward
True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, / What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed; / Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, / That gives us back the image of our mind. —Alexander Pope
May 20, 2008
If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. —John Stuart Mill
May 19, 2008
Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled. —Herman Melville
May 18, 2008
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. —Bertrand Russell
May 17, 2008
Disease is a vital expression of the human organism. —Georg Groddeck
May 16, 2008
The Constitution devotes the national domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution. —William Henry Seward
May 15, 2008
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes. —Clemens Metternich
May 14, 2008
There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. —William Shakespeare
May 13, 2008
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. —Georges Braque
May 12, 2008
Genius domus of the New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors. —J.D. Salinger
May 11, 2008
Won’t you play a simple melody / Like my mother sang to me— / One with good old fashioned harmony. / Play a simple melody. —Irving Berlin
May 10, 2008
A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you. —Ramsey Clark
Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; / And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. —Alexander Pope
May 7, 2008
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. —Archibald MacLeish
May 6, 2008
The United Nations will not abolish sin, but it can make it more difficult for the sinners. —Ivor Richard
May 5, 2008
When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. —Christopher Morley
May 4, 2008
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies / and to end as superstitions. —Thomas Henry Huxley
May 3, 2008
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the “creative” is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death. —May Sarton
May 2, 2008
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. —Georg Büchner
May 1, 2008
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
