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| Quotations of the Day: February 2003 |
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February 28, 2003
I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life’s hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.
—Ben Hecht
February 27, 2003
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
—Elizabeth Taylor
February 26, 2003
If you got to talking to most cowboys, they’d admit they write ’em. I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry.
—Ross Knox
February 25, 2003
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
February 24, 2003
I walked beside the evening sea / And dreamed a dream that could not be; / The waves that plunged along the shore / Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
—George William Curtis
February 23, 2003
A man who keeps a diary pays, / Due toll to many tedious days; / But life becomes eventful—then, / His busy hand forgets the pen. / Most books, indeed, are records less / Of fulness than of emptiness.
—William Allingham
February 22, 2003
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies / In other men, sleeping but never dead, / Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
—James Russell Lowell
February 21, 2003
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That’s a good religion.
—Malcolm X
February 20, 2003
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
—Georges Bernanos
February 19, 2003
You can cage the singer but not the song.
—Harry Belafonte
February 18, 2003
Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.
—Howard Nemerov
February 17, 2003
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
—Eric Ambler
February 16, 2003
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
—Helen Keller
February 15, 2003
There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
—Alfred North Whitehead
February 14, 2003
God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down …
—Anna Howard Shaw
February 13, 2003
The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 12, 2003
I am a patient man—always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.
—Abraham Lincoln
February 11, 2003
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
—Thomas Alva Edison
February 10, 2003
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
—Bertolt Brecht
February 9, 2003
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
—Alice Walker
February 8, 2003
It is what we imagine knowledge to be: / dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, / drawn from the cold hard mouth / of the world, derived from the rocky breasts / forever, flowing and drawn, and since / our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
—Elizabeth Bishop
February 7, 2003
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
—Frederick Douglass
February 6, 2003
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
—Robert Frost
February 5, 2003
You are in the courtroom of world opinion…. You have denied they exist, and I want to know if I understood you correctly…. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room!
—Adlai E. Stevenson
February 4, 2003
They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, “Give me a challenge and I’ll meet it with joy.”
—Ronald Reagan
February 3, 2003
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, / And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings … / And while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod / The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, / Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
—John Gillespie Magee
February 2, 2003
Now rest in peace, our patriot band; / Though far from nature’s limits thrown, / We trust they find a happier land, / A brighter sunshine of their own.
—Philip Freneau
February 1, 2003
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
—Joseph Wood Krutch
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