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Quotations of the Day: May 2004
May 31, 2004
“Why me?” That is the soldier’s first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as the night settles around the foxholes. —William Broyles, Jr.
May 30, 2004
The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, / White stars, is no less lovely being dark. —Countee Cullen
May 29, 2004
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own. —John F. Kennedy
May 28, 2004
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43. —Ian Fleming
May 27, 2004
The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man. —Rachel Carson
May 26, 2004
’Tis time, my friend, ’tis time! / For rest the heart is aching; / Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking / Fragments of being, while together you and I / Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die. —Aleksandr S. Pushkin
May 25, 2004
What potent blood hath modest May; / What fiery force the earth renews, / The wealth of forms, the flush of hues; / Joy shed in rosy waves abroad / Flows from the heart of Love, the Lord. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 24, 2004
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, / I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, / And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, / It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall. —Bob Dylan
May 23, 2004
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One. / I am mighty, world-destroying Time … —Bhagavad Gita
May 22, 2004
To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety! —Frances Wright
May 21, 2004
[Bring] whatever else God prompts you to get. He won’t suggest anything useless. —Andrei D. Sakharov
May 20, 2004
The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. —John Marshall Harlan
May 19, 2004
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. —Malcolm X
May 18, 2004
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: / Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. —Omar Khayyám
May 17, 2004
Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. —Earl Warren
The world’s great day is growing late, / Yet strange these fields that we have planted / So long with crops of love and hate. —Edwin Muir
May 14, 2004
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, 2004
We are commanded to love our neighbor because our “natural” attitude toward the “other” is one of either indifference or hostility. —W.H. Auden
May 12, 2004
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league. —Henry Cabot Lodge
May 11, 2004
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. —Martha Graham
American women, while they may like candy and roses, really need basic rights still denied them. —Olga M. Madar
May 8, 2004
I was never less alone than when by myself. —Edward Gibbon
May 7, 2004
Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. —Eva Perón
May 6, 2004
You provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war. —Orson Welles
May 5, 2004
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. —Karl Marx
May 4, 2004
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. —Katharine Hepburn
May 3, 2004
The mind that’s conscious of its rectitude, / Laughs at the lies of rumor. —Ovid
May 2, 2004
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. —Lionel Trilling
May 1, 2004
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. —Hesiod
