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Quotations of the Day: August 2004
August 31, 2004
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government]. —James Madison
August 30, 2004
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. —John Gunther
August 29, 2004
Life’s battles don’t always go / To the stronger or faster man; / But soon or late the man who wins / Is the one who thinks he can. —Walter D. Wintle
August 28, 2004
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us. —Bruno Bettelheim
August 27, 2004
This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort. —Lyndon Baines Johnson
August 26, 2004
I’d call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I’m afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name. —Geraldine Ferraro
August 25, 2004
Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning … except its own. —Leonard Bernstein
August 24, 2004
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means. —William Faulkner
August 23, 2004
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. —Austin Farrer
August 22, 2004
The United States brags about its political system, but the president says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. —Deng Xiaoping
August 21, 2004
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. —Naomi Wolf
August 20, 2004
It ain’t home t’ ye, though it be the palace of a king, Until somehow yer soul is sort o’ wrapped round everything. —Edgar Guest
August 19, 2004
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. —Bernard Baruch
They are damn good projects—excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there—God damn it! —Harry Hopkins
August 16, 2004
From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else. —Diana Nyad
August 15, 2004
But woe awaits a country when / She sees the tears of bearded men. —Sir Walter Scott
August 14, 2004
The only way I was going to make a difference for myself or any other black person is to say the hurdles were there and do what I had to do. —Wyomia Tyus
August 13, 2004
Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. —Sir Alfred Hitchcock
August 12, 2004
What I have crossed out I didn’t like. What I haven’t crossed out I’m dissatisfied with. —Cecil B. De Mille
August 11, 2004
In spite of all their kind some elements of worth / With difficulty persist here and there on earth. —Hugh MacDiarmid
August 10, 2004
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. —Herbert Hoover
August 9, 2004
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world. —Mark Twain
August 8, 2004
The concept of neutrality can lead to … a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. —Arthur Goldberg
August 7, 2004
Love … is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else. —Morton Hunt
August 6, 2004
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste. —Lucille Ball
August 5, 2004
Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you. —Paul Wilkinson
August 4, 2004
To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions. —Walter Pater
August 3, 2004
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. —P.D. James
