Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60226 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #375 on:** May 22, 2020, 08:06:17 AM »

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

Gerard De Nerval

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #376 on:** May 23, 2020, 10:53:59 AM »

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Johnny Ball

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #377 on:** May 24, 2020, 10:24:24 AM »

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

Elsa Maxwell

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #378 on:** May 25, 2020, 12:10:20 PM »

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Raymond Smullyan

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #379 on:** May 26, 2020, 08:43:54 AM »

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #380 on:** May 27, 2020, 08:32:23 AM »

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Julia Ward Howe

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #381 on:** May 28, 2020, 08:46:06 AM »

I'm not homophobic. I mean, who cares? You know the state of the world, and you're only here for about 70, 80, years, so why do people worry about somebody's sex life? It's bonkers, really.

Anne Reid

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #382 on:** May 29, 2020, 08:17:12 AM »

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #383 on:** May 29, 2020, 10:15:05 AM »

"We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity. George Takei

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #384 on:** May 30, 2020, 09:55:17 AM »

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Alfred Austin

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #385 on:** June 01, 2020, 10:33:47 AM »

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Marilyn Monroe

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #386 on:** June 01, 2020, 10:36:13 AM »

When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free. --Barack Obama

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #387 on:** June 01, 2020, 09:20:47 PM »

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Frantz Fanon

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #388 on:** June 02, 2020, 10:59:36 AM »

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #389 on:** June 04, 2020, 12:12:07 PM »

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Rosalind Russell

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #390 on:** June 05, 2020, 08:59:22 AM »

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

Gordon · « **Reply #391 on:** June 05, 2020, 09:21:05 AM »

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Steven Wright

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #392 on:** June 05, 2020, 07:17:16 PM »

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
― James Baldwin

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #393 on:** June 06, 2020, 10:37:40 AM »

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

Patrick Campbell

Roses · « **Reply #394 on:** June 06, 2020, 11:41:20 AM »

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
Francis Chan

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #395 on:** June 07, 2020, 10:29:37 AM »

The internet's completely over.

Prince

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #396 on:** June 08, 2020, 08:38:41 AM »

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Charles Reade

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #397 on:** June 09, 2020, 08:27:57 AM »

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #398 on:** June 09, 2020, 10:34:12 AM »

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" -
Ernest J. Gaines

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #399 on:** June 10, 2020, 09:51:35 AM »

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

Hattie McDaniel

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Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60226 times)