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| Quotations of the Day: January 2005 |
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January 31, 2005
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.
—Norman Mailer
January 30, 2005
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves—and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 29, 2005
Revolution begins with the self, in the self…. We’d better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don’t win the war.
—Toni Cade
January 28, 2005
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, “My country, right or wrong.” In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
—Carl Schurz
January 27, 2005
If you’re going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.
—Hyman G. Rickover
January 26, 2005
We are rapidly becoming a land of hypochondriacs, from the ulcer-and-martini executives in the big city to the patent medicine patrons in the sulfur-and-molasses belt.
—Vincent Askey
January 25, 2005
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
—Virginia Woolf
January 24, 2005
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get.
—William Feather
January 23, 2005
If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
—Abigail Adams
January 22, 2005
I dream, therefore I exist.
—J. August Strindberg
January 21, 2005
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
—Stonewall Jackson
January 20, 2005
Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs.
—Federico Fellini
January 19, 2005
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
—Alexander Woollcott
January 18, 2005
Enter by this gateway and seek the way of honor, the light of truth, the will to work for men.
—Edwin Anderson Alderman
January 17, 2005
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance / Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
—Ogden Nash
January 16, 2005
Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.
—Norman Podhoretz
January 15, 2005
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 14, 2005
It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.
—Albert Schweitzer
January 13, 2005
January, month of empty pockets!… let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
—Colette
January 12, 2005
How many miles to Babylon? / Three score and ten. / Can I get there by candlelight? / Yes, and back again.
—Mother Goose
January 11, 2005
The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed.
—William James
January 10, 2005
The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth.
—Robinson Jeffers
January 9, 2005
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism.
—Richard M. Nixon
January 8, 2005
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; “That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.”
—Galileo
January 7, 2005
For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 6, 2005
You’ll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don’t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
—Sam Rayburn
January 5, 2005
Political image is like mixing cement. When it’s wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there’s almost nothing you can do to reshape it.
—Walter F. Mondale
January 4, 2005
In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for man’s interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nation’s life.
—Lyndon Baines Johnson
January 3, 2005
In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold; / Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old; / Be not the first by whom the New are try’d, / Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside.
—Alexander Pope
January 2, 2005
The computer is only a fast idiot, it has no imagination; it cannot originate action. It is, and will remain, only a tool to man.
—American Library Association
January 1, 2005
Yes, I am the nation, and these are the things that I am. I was conceived in freedom and, God willing, in freedom I will spend the rest of my days. / May I possess always the integrity, the courage and the strength to keep myself unshackled, to remain a citadel of freedom and a beacon of hope to the world.
—Otto Whittaker
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