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Quotations of the Day: September 2005
September 30, 2005
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun. —Saint Jerome
September 29, 2005
Many children the world over have revealed a kind of toughness and plasticity that make the determined efforts of some parents to spare their children the slightest pain seem ironic. —Robert Coles
September 28, 2005
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol
September 27, 2005
And ne’er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, / While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves. —Robert Treat Paine
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. —William Faulkner
September 24, 2005
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. —Plato
September 23, 2005
The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression of that will by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained. —Victoria Woodhull
September 22, 2005
And so while dreams are the individual man’s play with reality, the sculptor’s art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams. —Friedrich Nietzsche
September 21, 2005
The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, / Bearing the wanton burden of the prime / Like widowed wombs after their lords’ decease. —William Shakespeare
September 20, 2005
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. —Ecclesiastes 9:10
September 19, 2005
The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal. —Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
September 18, 2005
We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume always a crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending. —Henry David Thoreau
September 17, 2005
Our Constitution was not a perfect instrument, it is not perfect yet; but it provided a firm base upon which all manner of men of all races, colors and creeds could build our solid structure of democracy. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
September 16, 2005
It is a war to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom—against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning. —Susan B. Anthony
September 15, 2005
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. —William Howard Taft
September 14, 2005
There is a vast difference—a constitutional difference—between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. —Frederick M. Vinson
Remorse—Regret that one waited so long to do it. —H.L. Mencken
September 11, 2005
There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries. —William Shakespeare
September 10, 2005
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, / For that were stupid and irrational; / But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, / And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. —Joanna Baillie
September 9, 2005
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. —Leo Tolstoy
September 8, 2005
Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the war room! —Stanley Kubrick
September 7, 2005
I hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles and tell them that the hour has arrived and their day is here; that we are on the march against the ancient enemies and we are going to be successful. —Lyndon B. Johnson
September 6, 2005
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. —Psalms 30:5
September 5, 2005
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. —Mother Teresa
September 4, 2005
I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo. If an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight. —Richard Wright
September 3, 2005
A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world. —Pope John Paul II
September 2, 2005
I rise superior to my pain, / When I am weak then I am strong. —Charles Wesley
September 1, 2005
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. —Job 14:11–12
