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We are still developing the new procedures for selecting quotes of the day. This page is for quote of the day proposals specifically for dates in the month of September, and quotes proposed should ideally have some relation to the day, or persons born on it, though sometimes exceptions can be made for quotes that relate to notable current events. Developing ideas of people or works to quote on specific days can be explored through the Wikipedia page: List of historical anniversaries.

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used. (Perhaps, at most, only one quote per day should be ranked thus by any user, as to avoid confusions)
3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used
2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used
0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.
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1

  • "It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it." ~ Robert E. Lee
  • Comment: WWII started on Sept. 1
  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:18, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
  • 3 ~ Kalki 22:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

2005: It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. ~ Bruce Fairchild Barton

  • 4 Kalki 19:07, 31 August 2005 (UTC) Lee's quote is a great one, but In the wake of Hurricane Katrina's passing I thing this is better.
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2

2005: Speak softly and carry a big stick ~ Theodore Roosevelt

    • Uttered this day, 1901
    • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:19, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
    • 3 ~ Kalki 22:53, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Vietnam is a country, not a war ~ Le Van Bang, former Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States

  • 3 - for Vietnamese National Day. LordAmeth 18:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
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3

  • "Once you learn to read you will be forever free." ~ Frederick Douglass, who boarded a train that day on 1838 on his way to freedom.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. ~ Frederick Douglass

  • 3 Kalki 01:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

2005: I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~ Frederick Douglass

  • 4 Kalki 01:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
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4

2005: I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?" ~ Federico Fellini, in honour of the first transatlantic television broadcast, this day on 1951

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5

  • "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." ~ Jack Valenti, born this day
  • "There is only one possible route of action, Greenhouse gases have to be radically reduced and it has to happen worldwide. Until now, the US has kept its eyes shut to this emergency. (Americans) make up a mere 4 percent of the population, but are responsible for close to a quarter of emissions." ~ Jürgen Trittin, because of the recent political relevance
    • 3 Lehmann 14:38, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

2005: The role of the Supreme Court is to uphold those claims of individual liberty that it finds are well-founded in the Constitution, and to reject other claims against the government that it concludes are not well-founded. Its role is no more to exclusively uphold the claims of the individual than it is to exclusively uphold the claims of the government: It must hold the constitutional balance true between these claims. ~ William Rehnquist (recent death)

  • 4 Kalki 20:05, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
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  • "Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?" ~ Robert M. Pirsig, born this day.

My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

  • 3 Kalki 21:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

  • 3 Kalki 21:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live, but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, but penetrates all the way through: We've won it. It's going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

  • 3 Kalki 21:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

2005: No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

  • 4 Kalki 21:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. ~ Elizabeth I of England (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

God may forgive you, but I never can. ~ Elizabeth I of England (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty.... But I am too busy thinking about myself. ~ Edith Sitwell (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. ~ Edith Sitwell (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?. ~ Edith Sitwell (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

2005: I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ~ Edith Sitwell (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 22:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
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Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. ~ Peter Sellers (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 16:28, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed. ~ Peter Sellers (date of birth)

  • 2 Kalki 16:28, 7 September 2005 (UTC) I would rank this at least a 3 normally, but it is not sourced and there are several variants, thus the accuracy of any of them is in doubt.

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.~ Peter Sellers (date of birth)

  • 2 Kalki 16:28, 7 September 2005 (UTC) Similarly, I would rank this higher, but it is not sourced.

I like to watch. ~ Peter Sellers as "Chance" in Being There (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 16:28, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

2005: Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. ~ David O. McKay, born that day.

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9

  • "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." ~ Mao Zedong, died this day

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. ~ Leo Tolstoy (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:34, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. ~ Leo Tolstoy (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:34, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here. ~ Leo Tolstoy (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:34, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

2005: Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. ~ Leo Tolstoy (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 22:34, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
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  • "Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways." ~ Stephen Jay Gould, born this day.
  • Evolutionists make no claim for perpetual truth, though creationists often do (and then attack us for a style of argument that they themselves favor). In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ~ Stephen Jay Gould (date of birth)
  • 3 Kalki 16:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied. ~ Stephen Jay Gould (date of birth)
  • 3 Kalki 16:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
  • We inhabit a complex world. Some boundaries are sharp and permit clean and definite distinctions. But nature also includes continua that cannot be neatly parceled into two piles of unambiguous yeses and noes. Biologists have rejected, as fatally flawed in principle, all attempts by anti-abortionists to define an unambiguous 'beginning of life,' because we know so well that the sequence from ovulation or spermatogenesis to birth is an unbreakable continuum—and surely no one will define masturbation as murder. ~ Stephen Jay Gould (date of birth)
  • 3 Kalki 16:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

2005: I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy. ~ Stephen Jay Gould (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 16:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
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  • "Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do." ~ Stephen Hawking

This enemy attacked not just our people, but all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world. The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world. We will be patient, we will be focused, and we will be steadfast in our determination.... we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms. ~ George W. Bush

2005 : September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life. ~ Tony Blair

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12

  • "Dalton McGuinty. He's an evil reptilian kitten eater from another planet. (sorry)" ~ Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (from a press release, released this day)

When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either. ~ Jesse Owens (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. ~ Stanisław Lem (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly perfectly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. In the same way many human institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is true, for example, of most universities, and of all great newspapers.. ~ H. L. Mencken (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ~ H. L. Mencken (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ~ H. L. Mencken (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth—that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.. ~ H. L. Mencken (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
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13

  • "It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President, the country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number." ~ Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, RD was born this day.

2005 : Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets." ~ Judith Martin, AKA "Miss Manners" , born this day.

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2005: I've had enough of breakdowns and diagrams— judging from picture books, apparently Heaven is a partly cloudy place. ~ Jenny Lewis

Using lyrics of "Don't Deconstruct" as they are sung; originally suggested as:

  • "According to picture books, Heaven is apparently a partly cloudy place." ~ (Jennifer Lewis, poet, from her poem "Don't Deconstruct")
  • 4 - Pacian
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It is absurd — improbable — it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts. ~ Agatha Christie (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:49, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. ~ Agatha Christie (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:49, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. ~ Agatha Christie (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 23:49, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
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  • "We have believed and we do believe now that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible." ~Mahatma Gandhi
  • 2 Kalki 22:40, 15 September 2005 (UTC) A good quote, which I would rank higher on other days, but it has no clear correlation with the date and thus is not likely to become preferred over any good ones which do.

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. ~ Lauren Bacall (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:40, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : A planned life is a dead life. ~ Lauren Bacall (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 22:40, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
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  • "Me actor. Them fashion. No compute." (Actress Martha Plimpton)
  • 5 (short, concise, but extremely effective commentary on the state of Hollywood.)
  • 2 No clear correlation with the date (and 4 is the highest ranking available, not 5)

The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else. ~ Ken Kesey (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. ~ Ken Kesey (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. ~ Ken Kesey (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : I've never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. ~ Ken Kesey (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 21:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
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  • "I have taken your horrible idea and turned it into a brilliant one!" (Peggy Hill, "King of the Hill")
  • 4
  • 2 Kalki 23:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words. ~ Samuel Johnson (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ~ Samuel Johnson (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and the last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. ~ Samuel Johnson (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~ Samuel Johnson (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 23:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
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  • "When Gianne Verscae died it was a real chance for the modelling community to speak out about their pain. When Naomi Campbell was asked how she was effected by the murder she responded "It's been a very horrible thing...for ME." (Sandra Bernhard)
  • 5
1 Kalki 22:46, 18 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date, and not a great quote: Bernhard might be deliberately taking a statement a out of context and mis-emphasizing it for her comedy routine, as a great thing for HER.

I think the unique thing about music and graphic art is as oposed to, say, acting and directing, that if you are good you can always create a place for yourself. ~ Cass Elliot (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is. ~ Cass Elliot (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. ~ Frances Farmer (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 22:46, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
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  • "May I remind you that it does NOT say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty!" (Cher Horowitz, "Clueless"_
  • 4
  • 1 Kalki 22:46, 19 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ~ Sophia Loren (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ~ Sophia Loren (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. ~ Sophia Loren (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 22:46, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
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  • "Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and desposable." (Miss White, "Clue")
  • 5
  • 2 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date.

No one would have believed... that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. ~ H. G. Wells (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, for ever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out it's realm amidst the stars. ~ H. G. Wells (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

What it is to bathe every day, always to be clad beautifully, to climb mountains for pleasure, to fly, to meet none but agreeable, well mannered people, to conduct researches or make delightful things... a time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it. ~ H. G. Wells (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. ~ H. G. Wells (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
~ Leonard Cohen ~ (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens,
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
~ Leonard Cohen ~ (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

You loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
~ Leonard Cohen ~ (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. ~ Stephen King (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revalations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear. ~ Stephen King (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I cain't. ~ "John Coffey" in The Green Mile by Stephen King (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : Hope is a good thing — maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. ~ "Andy Dufresne" in The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
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2005 : Delicious autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.  ~ George Eliot

  • 3 Kalki 22:21, 20 September 2005 (UTC) First day of Autumn 2005
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2005 :
There's something happening somewhere — baby I just know that there is.
You can't start a fire — you can't start a fire without a spark.
This gun's for hire — even if we're just dancing in the dark.
~ Bruce Springsteen ~

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
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2005 : I wait . . . Wait for the mists and for the blacker rain— Heavier winds that stir the veil of fate, happier winds that pile her hair; Again they tear me, teach me, strew the heavy air upon me, winds that I know, and storm. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (date of birth, and correlation to the current period of powerful storms)

  • 4 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
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The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~ William Faulkner (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

No battle is ever won... They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ~ William Faulkner (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : Between grief and nothing I will take grief. ~ William Faulkner (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
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Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present. ~ T. S. Eliot ~ (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

All is always now. Words strain, crack and sometimes break, under the burden, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, will not stay still. ~ T. S. Eliot (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

All that I can hope to make you understand is only events: not what has happened. And people to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. ~ T. S. Eliot (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed.
~ T. S. Eliot ~ (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
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2005 : Could you see the storm rising? 
Could you see the guy who was driving?
Could you climb higher and higher? 
Could you climb right over the top?
~ Kate Bush ~ (stormy weather and... "King of the Mountain"; the first single in many years by this enigmatic artist is due to be released for download from iTunes and other outlets on this date, from the upcoming album that will be her first in 12 years)

  • 4 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
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"We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." -Pierre Trudeau (d. September 28, 2000)

  • 3 Kalki 22:17, 27 September 2005 (UTC) No ranking was given by the poster of this suggestion; It is very good, but I would prefer to use it on Trudeau's birthday in less than three weeks.

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely. ~ Francis Turner Palgrave (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:17, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 : In the season of white wild roses
We two went hand in hand:
But now in the ruddy autumn
Together already we stand. ~ Francis Turner Palgrave (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 22:17, 27 September 2005 (UTC) I actually rank the love quote higher of itself, but Autumn theme makes this a bit more topical.
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2005 : There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery." ~ Enrico Fermi (b. September 29, 1901) (attributed)

  • 3 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC) (The person who suggested this gave it no ranking)
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Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children. ~ Elie Wiesel (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other. ~ Elie Wiesel (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. ~ Elie Wiesel (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, idolator, worshipper of fire, come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

The fault is in the blamer — Spirit sees nothing to criticize. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:58, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

2005 : Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 23:58, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away. ~ Shintaro Ishihara (date of birth)


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