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April 17

April 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. ~ B. F. Skinner
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ~ Thornton Wilder (born 17 April 1897)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. ~ Karen Blixen (born 17 April 1885)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. ~ Thornton Wilder
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I am not a novelist, really not even a writer; I am a storyteller. One of my friends said about me that I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them, and perhaps this is not entirely untrue. To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy. ~ Karen Blixen
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will. ~ Karen Blixen
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns. We agree in principle. That's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness, Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last, Is equally converted into palms, Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm, Madame, we are where we began. ~ Wallace Stevens ~ A poem involving peristyles and palms for Palm Sunday 2011, in both Western and Eastern Orthodox calendars.
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ~ Thornton Wilder
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki for the 11th anniversary of the First version of the Wikipedia:Ignore all rules policy.

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard of Easter Sunday 2022.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

 * We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ Thornton Wilder
 * Used 23 November 2006, proposed by Kalki

 * I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. ~ Thornton Wilder
 * Used 7 December 2006, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. ~ Thornton Wilder
 * 3 Kalki 20:47, 15 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. ~ Thornton Wilder
 * 3 Kalki 20:47, 15 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred. ~ Karen Blixen
 * 3 Kalki 04:09, 19 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance. ~ Karen Blixen
 * 3 Kalki 04:09, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Terrorism has no motherland and terrorists have no nationality. ~ Karen Demirchyan (born April 17)
 * 3 because it is very true. Those who terrorize for no reason have commitment to absolutely no ideals and belong to no race, religion, or land. They serve no one. - Zarbon 04:13, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: BBC Archive - NewsBank - Oct 20, 1999
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

In Beauty's dwelling all things fair, And rich, to win her sweet smiles strove; But still young Beauty's only care Was, to watch o'er the lamp of Love. ~ Eliza Acton
 * 2 Zarbon 19:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

But tir'd at length poor Beauty slept, And while she rested, wearied quite, Indifference to the dear lamp crept, And quench'd its warm, and splendid light. ~ Eliza Acton
 * 2 Zarbon 19:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

It's better to live one day as a lion, than one hundred years as a worm. ~ Željko Ražnatović
 * 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

If somebody wants to kill me, he will - no matter what stands in his way. ~ Željko Ražnatović
 * 2 Zarbon 19:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. ~ Henry Vaughan
 * 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample on my days, My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays. ~ Henry Vaughan
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 19:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark! ~ Henry Vaughan
 * 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Product and capital are essentially different things; the former belongs to individuals, the latter to society. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

All freedom of trade must disappear. Competition must be utterly wiped out. All industrial and commercial activity must be centered in one vast, enormous, all-inclusive monopoly. The remedy for monopolies is monopoly. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

What other applications this principle of Authority, once adopted in the economic sphere, will develop is very evident. It means the absolute control by the majority of all individual conduct. The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys. But he would only be allowed it; he could not claim it as his own. There would be no foundation of society upon a guaranteed equality of the largest possible liberty. Such liberty as might exist would exist by sufferance and could be taken away at any moment. Constitutional guarantees would be of no avail. There would be but one article in the constitution of a State Socialistic country: "The right of the majority is absolute." ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 2 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

The nurse and the teacher, like the doctor and the preacher, must be selected voluntarily, and their services must be paid for by those who patronize them. Parental rights must not be taken away, and parental responsibilities must not be foisted upon others. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture. ~ Benjamin Tucker Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture.
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3. but would extend it for context:
 * Can you not see that it is the State that creates the conditions which give birth to thieves and murderers, and that to justify its existence on the ground of the prevalence of theft and murder is a logical process every whit as absurd as those used to defeat your efforts to abolish slavery and the Church?

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

It is not wise warfare to throw your ammunition to the enemy unless you throw it from the cannon's mouth. But if you can compel the enemy to waste his ammunition by drawing his fire on some thoroughly protected spot; if you can, by annoying and goading and harassing him in all possible ways, drive him to the last resort of stripping bare his tyrannous and invasive purposes and put him in the attitude of a designing villain assailing honest men for purposes of plunder; there is no better strategy. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 3 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth. ~ Benjamin Tucker
 * 2 Zarbon 00:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

The belief that torture is always wrong is a prejudice inherited from an obsolete philosophy. We need to shed the belief that human rights are violated when a terrorist is tortured. As Rawls and others have shown, basic freedoms must form a coherent whole. Self-evidently, there can be no right to attack basic human rights. Therefore, once the proper legal procedures are in place, torturing terrorists cannot violate their rights. In fact, in a truly liberal society, terrorists have an inalienable right to be tortured. ~ John N. Gray
 * 2 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2. Would prefer the suggestion which follows, which makes it clearer, out of context, that this was written satirically. - 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Human rights are not just cultural or legal constructions, as fashionable western relativists are fond of claiming. They are universal values. To deny the benefits of the new regime of rights to other cultures is to patronise them in a way that is reminiscent of the colonial era. If the new regime on torture is good enough for the US, who can say that it is not good for everyone? ~ John N. Gray
 * 2 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC) but only with clear indications of its sarcastic and satirical nature.

The core of the belief in progress is that human values and goals converge in parallel with our increasing knowledge. The twentieth century shows the contrary. Human beings use the power of scientific knowledge to assert and defend the values and goals they already have. New technologies can be used to alleviate suffering and enhance freedom. They can, and will, also be used to wage war and strengthen tyranny. Science made possible the technologies that powered the industrial revolution. In the twentieth century, these technologies were used to implement state terror and genocide on an unprecedented scale. Ethics and politics do not advance in line with the growth of knowledge — not even in the long run. ~ John N. Gray
 * 3 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

The mass political movements of the 20th century were vehicles for myths inherited from religion, and it is no accident that religion is reviving now that these movements have collapsed. ~ John N. Gray
 * 3 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Knowledge grows, but human beings remain much the same. ~ John N. Gray
 * 4 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

The US — its bankrupt mortgage institutions nationalised and its gigantic war machine effectively funded by foreign borrowing — is in steep decline. With its financial system in the worst mess since the 1930s, the west's ability to shape events is dwindling by the day. Sermonising about "law-based international relations" is laughable after Iraq, and at bottom not much more than nostalgia for a vanished hegemony. ~ John N. Gray
 * 2 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Over the past 200 years, philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error — the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals. ~ John N. Gray
 * 3 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much. ~ Artur Schnabel
 * 2 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ~ J. P. Morgan
 * 3 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:04, 15 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Any man who does not carry with him the value of all of the men around him does not carry the value to spend my time. ~ J. P. Morgan
 * 2 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Critics: People who make monuments out of books. Biographers: People who make books out of monuments. Poets: People who raze monuments. Publishers: People who sell rubble. Readers: People who buy it. ~ Cynthia Ozick
 * 3 Zarbon 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. ...Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? — Every, every minute? ~ Thornton Wilder
 * 3 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:13, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

''There is in God — some say — A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!'' ~ Henry Vaughan ~
 * 3 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 Zarbon 15:13, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

''I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light. All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.'' ~ Henry Vaughan ~
 * 3 Kalki 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:13, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:46, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

title: April 17


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May 17

May 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problems — neat, plausible, and wrong. ~ H. L. Mencken
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I had a stick of Carefree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. ~ Mitch Hedberg
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey... It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting. ~ Enya (born 17 May 1961)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is. ~ Henri Barbusse
 * selected by Kalki (born 17 May 1873)

 * 2008
 * I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in all the countries of the world, who, in the oscillation of national egoisms let loose, stand up and stand out, steadfast as the glorious statues of Right and Duty. ~ Henri Barbusse
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth. ~ Henri Barbusse
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No — I recover myself — they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying "I wish" must say "I will." And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings. ~ Henri Barbusse
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * While all brutal forces clash with themselves, all moral forces make mighty harmony together. ~ Henri Barbusse
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. ~ Idi Amin (born May 17)
 * 4 because everyone doesn't say what they think. It's a beautiful admittance to the human thought process and the actual sayings themselves. Zarbon 03:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World - Page 17 by Jerrold M. Post -Biography & Autobiography - 2004
 * 1 Kalki 14:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 09:59, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. ~ Idi Amin (born May 17)
 * 3 Zarbon 03:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: 101 People You Won't Meet in Heaven - Page 11 - by Michael Powell - History - 2007
 * 1 Kalki 14:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 19:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning. ~ Idi Amin (born May 17)
 * 3 because there would be no meaning without the great mystery. Zarbon 03:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:37, 13 May 2013 (UTC) 2 Kalki 14:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

You cannot run faster than a bullet. ~ Idi Amin (born May 17)
 * 3 because this is absolutely true. Zarbon 03:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners - Page 51 - by Geoff Tibballs -Humor - 2004
 * 1 Kalki 14:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 19:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I am not a politician but a professional soldier. ~ Idi Amin (born May 17)
 * 3 because the sincerity of being a soldier crosses the boundary of politics and government and becomes a life in itself. Zarbon 03:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King - Page 57 - by Jerrold M. Post, Robert S. Robins - Biography & Autobiography - 1993
 * 1 Kalki 14:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 19:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are. ~ Lloyd Alexander
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 11:05, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:58, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. ~ Lloyd Alexander
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 11:05, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:58, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 00:40, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * This quote was already used on 15 May 2004, (and prior to the development of policies and practices favoring quotes with some relevance to the dates for QOTD). ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:21, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

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title: May 17


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July 17

July 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * All animals are equal — but some animals are more equal than others. ~ Animal Farm by George Orwell
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Of all the creatures that creep, swim or fly, Peopling the earth, waters and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think, the greatest fool is man. ~ Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. ~ Cory Doctorow (born 17 July 1971)
 * author proposed by MosheZadka; quote proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul; The mind's the standard of the man. ~ Isaac Watts ~ (born 17 July 1674)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence. ~ Isaac Watts
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself. ~ J. Michael Straczynski
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume: The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it: The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Never give up! it is wiser and better Always to hope, than once to despair. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to a major historical events of secrecies and revelations which occurred on this day of this year, with McCaine's official statement one of many private and public responses to them.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

 * used 8 April 2018, proposed by Jeff Q, as a quote of Londo Mollari, in Babylon 5, "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"; first broadcast 8 April 1996

Suggestions
The Bitchun Society has had much experience with restores from backup — in the era of the cure for death, people live pretty recklessly. Some people get refreshed a couple dozen times a year. ~ Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory was born that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (OK; markup needs work)
 * 1 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC) this uses obscure terms without much context to go on; I have added a few Cory Doctorow quotes below, that I think would be better.
 * 1 Zarbon 06:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

I'd seen how Imagineering worked when they were on their own, building prototypes and conceptual mockups — I knew that the real bottleneck was the constant review and revisions, the ever-fluctuating groupmind consensus of the ad-hoc that commissioned their work. ~ Cory Doctorow
 * 2 Kalki 21:45, 16 July 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained—tending bar, mopping toilets —commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours.
 * 2 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC) this also uses obscure terms, as the first suggestion for Doctorow did, but fuller context is implied a bit more clearly.
 * 1 Zarbon 06:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Your assumption, and the truth, dine at totally separate tables. ~ J. Michael Straczynski
 * 3 Zarbon 12:03, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC) I am inclined to believe such an expression predates this use of it.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. ~ Adam Smith, he died on July 17, 1790
 * 2 Kalki 22:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3; would prefer it, however, for June 16 (Smith's birthdate). InvisibleSun 22:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

title: July 17


text:
August 17

August 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ~ Marilyn Monroe
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead. ~ Davy Crockett (born 17 August 1786)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas — and you have to work through it all. ~ V. S. Naipaul
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized. ~ Davy Crockett
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Everything of value about me is in my books. Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will — with luck — come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. ~ V. S. Naipaul
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up. ~ V. S. Naipaul (born August 17, 1932)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice — a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess. ~ Davy Crockett
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I have never knew what it was to sacrifice my own judgment to gratify any party and I have no doubt of the time being close at hand when I will be rewarded for letting my tongue speak what my heart thinks. I have suffered myself to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never again elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ~ Davy Crockett
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to her recent death.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * I knew the Spring was come. I knew it even Better than all by this, that through my chase In bush and stone and hill and sea and heaven I seem'd to see and follow still your face. Your face my quarry was. For it I rode, My horse a thing of wings, myself a god. ~ Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ~
 * used 20 March 2012, proposed by

Suggestions
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem that the margin of this page is too small to contain. ~ Pierre de Fermat (b. August 17, 1601)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:53, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 TomPhil 11:55, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC) Amusing, but not sure of its appropriateness for QOTD.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. ~ V. S. Naipaul
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:03, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

With the emergence of nuclear-missile weaponry, cybernetics, electronics, and computer equipment, any subjective approach to military problems, hare-brained plans, and superficiality can cause irreparable damage. ~ Matvei Zakharov
 * 3 because a single miscalculated mistake nowadays can have a negative effect a thousand fold. Zarbon 05:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens. Where is she that I loved, the woman with eyes like stars? Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the city. A city taken by storm, where none are left but the slain. ~ Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
 * 2 Zarbon 05:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. ~ Davy Crockett
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:07, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

title: August 17


text:
September 17

September 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~ Woody Allen
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. ~ Tony Benn
 * selected by Kalki

 * 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 (born 17 September 1935)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. ~ William Carlos Williams ~ (born September 17, 1883)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * 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
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * 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
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past. ~ William Carlos Williams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world. ~ Ken Kesey
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * It's a strange courage you give me, ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! ~ William Carlos Williams ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.

 * 2022

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Me actor. Them fashion. No compute. (Actress Martha Plimpton)
 * 5 (short, concise, but extremely effective commentary on the state of Hollywood.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.167.242.65 (talk • contribs) 05:04, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:55, 16 September 2009 (UTC) 2 Kalki 21:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date (and 4 is the highest ranking available, not 5)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 08:16, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I love being married, I do. It's so great to find that one special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~ Rita Rudner
 * 2 for comedic value Zarbon 04:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 N6n 11:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, the old theory was "marry a older man because they're more mature". But the new theory is "men don't mature — marry a young one". ~ Rita Rudner
 * 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 04:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Nobody is really happy with what's on their head. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind. ~ Rita Rudner
 * 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 04:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful. ~ Ken Kesey
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 11:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

I been away a long time. ~ Ken Kesey
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past. ~ Ken Kesey
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is. ~ Ken Kesey
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 11:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

It is my conviction and shraddha (faith) that even on economic issues, Gandhi is relevant even today... So in every aspect of my social reform efforts, you will see the imprint of Gandhi... I bring every little aspect of Gandhi ji’s life into my work... This is part of putting our traditions and Gandhian values to creative use. ~ Narendra Modi
 * 3 დამოკიდებულება (talk) 19:42, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Mahatma Buddha has also left a deep imprint on my life... In Buddhism, I see dharma entrenched in karuna (compassion). I believe compassion is the most valuable essence of life. When I formed the government, these values got ingrained even deeper. What attracts me about Buddha is his inclusive philosophy; secondly, his modernity; and thirdly, his belief in the importance of Sangathan—the idea of Sangha. ~ Narendra Modi
 * 3 დამოკიდებულება (talk) 19:42, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:51, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

title: September 17


text:
October 17

October 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Sex is only dirty if it's done right. ~ Woody Allen
 * selected by IP 195.100.67.10

 * 2004
 * Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. ~ "Yoda" in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. Always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El — they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. ~ Marlon Brando as "Jor-El" in Superman: The Movie
 * proposed by Kalki; Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel (born 17 October 1914)

 * 2006
 * Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~ Arthur Miller (born 17 October 1915)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. ~ Arthur Miller
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad. ~ Arthur Miller
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. ~ Arthur Miller
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The law of cases of necessity is not likely to be well furnished with precise rules; necessity creates the law, it supersedes rules; and whatever is reasonable and just in such cases, is likewise legal; it is not to be considered as matter of surprise, therefore, if much instituted rule is not to be found on such subjects. ~ William Scott
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011:
 * You will travel far, my little Kal-El. But we will never leave you … even in the face of our deaths … the richness of our lives shall be yours. All that I have, all that I've learned, everything I feel … all this, and more … I bequeath you, my son. You will carry me inside you all the days of your life. You will make my strength your own, and see my life through your own eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father the son. This is all I can send you, Kal-El. ~ Marlon Brando ~ as "Jor-El" in Superman: The Movie
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of her recent death.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

 * The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. ~ Arthur Miller
 * Used 12 February 2005, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
You'll Believe a Man Can Fly! ~ Superman: The Movie tagline (Superman was co-created by Jerry Siegel, born that day)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 23:43, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 00:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC) It sounds attractive / metaphorical even out of the context.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 DutchOff (talk) 23:55, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need. ~ Jerry Siegel (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 18:58, 16 October 2005 (UTC) The first introduction of "Superman"
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:48, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Aphaia 00:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC) Too much strongly context-binded imho.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 DutchOff (talk) 23:55, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Your name is Kal-El. You are the only survivor of the planet Krypton. Even though you've been raised as a human, you are not one of them. You have great powers, only some of which you have as yet discovered. ~ Marlon Brando as "Jor-El" in Superman: The Movie
 * 3 Kalki 18:58, 16 October 2005 (UTC) Lines from one of the more famous renditions of the Superman stories.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:48, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Aphaia 00:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC) same the above.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DanielTom (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you. ~ Arthur Miller
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:48, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 00:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC) If sourced, I'd give a 4!
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends. ~ Yvor Winters
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

All I have is a sword, and a war I cannot win, but I can never stop fighting. ~ Robert Jordan
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DanielTom (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 DutchOff (talk) 23:55, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

You can either have an hour of hope or an hour of despair. ~ Robert Jordan
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: What is the benefit to add quotes you cannot highly estimate? Just curious. --Aphaia 00:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Response: 2 to me is a high rating. 3 means that the quote is in itself exceptional amongst the rest for the day. And 4 to me is such a rare rating that I limited it to such a few quotes during the entire year in the hopes that they make it. - Zarbon 22:23, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DanielTom (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

The Creator made women to please the eyes and trouble the mind. ~ Robert Jordan
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DanielTom (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 DutchOff (talk) 23:55, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather. ~ Robert Jordan
 * 4 Zarbon 04:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 03:07, 13 October 2011 (UTC) 2 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC) these words can be taken in various ways, some perhaps edifying, to some extent, if encouraging heroic detachment in worthy efforts, but others simply promoting resignation and despair, or even a very unhealthy longing for some imaginary ease of death rather than the vital tasks of Life.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 0 this is misattributed, Jordan did not create this, in the form used it comes from the Japanese rescript to Imperial soldiers, it's original form is several millennia old, and has been used and paraphrased by many others e.g. Huey P. Newton, see the last section of the Robert Jordan page.--KTo288 (talk) 00:01, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the arms race and that they try to restore the spirit of the Cold War. ~ Andrei Grechko
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3//Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

For us military men, it is impossible to forget. ~ Andrei Grechko
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population. ~ Dmitriy Ustinov
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 It is 2022 and there is a notable armed conflict happened. DutchOff (talk) 23:55, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Remember when Ronnie died and you said you wished it was me, well guess what...I am dead; dead to you as can be. ~ Eminem in "Cleanin' Out My Closet"
 * 3 Zarbon 05:24, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1. Lacks context. - InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC) Eminem has better lyrics than this.

And Haley's gettin' so big now, you should see her, she's beautiful. But you'll never see her; she won't even be at your funeral. ~ Eminem in "Cleanin' Out My Closet"
 * 2 Zarbon 05:24, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1. Lacks context. - InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DanielTom (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

''The rain of matter upon sense Destroys me momently. The score: There comes what will come.'' ~ Yvor Winters ~
 * 3 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:26, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

The Wheel wheels as the Wheel wills. ~ Robert Jordan
 * 3 Kalki 18:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 too recurring and repeating, though a bit comical. Zarbon 22:26, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DanielTom (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 DutchOff (talk) 23:55, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained. ~ Yvor Winters ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Dance is not an internal thing. You have to be able to give to somebody else visually watching or they won't care. If they don't leave with some type of emotional feeling—whether it be you cry, or you laugh, or you jump in the air for joy—then it becomes movement and we [dancers] haven't done our job. ~ Napoleon D'umo (birthday)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:21, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DanielTom (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

When you can tell the story of the song through your [dancing], it's brilliant. It comes across as so honest and not fake. ~ Napoleon D'umo
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 with a lean toward 3. ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:21, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DanielTom (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Somewhere in the world of dance we started thinking about steps way too much: technique, steps, technique, steps. You can do all the technique you want, the regular public doesn't know. All they know is how you perform and what you tell them and what you make them feel; and when you make somebody feel something, it is undeniable.

OR

Somewhere in the world of dance we started thinking about steps way too much: technique, steps, technique, steps. You can do all the technique you want, the regular public doesn't know. All they know is how you perform and what you tell them and what you make them feel; and when you make somebody feel something, it is undeniable... There's a life to dance that has to happen and it was seen years ago with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and the life and the feeling they had in a performance. And when you watch them and you see them[,] you start to sway with them and you start to move with them and you miss that sometimes and that's what needs to happen with dance again. ~ Napoleon D'umo
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:21, 21 July 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or perhaps eventually a 4.
 * 1 DanielTom (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Today, for the first time since the existence of societies it is a question of organizing a totally new system; of replacing the celestial with the terrestrial, the vague by the positive, and the poetic by the real. ~ Henri de Saint-Simon
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 02:45, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:49, 16 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:30, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 03:58, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

A child is innately wise and realistic. If left to himself without adult suggestion of any kind, he will develop as far as he is capable of developing. ~ A. S. Neill
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 19:20, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:30, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:28, 17 October 2015 (UTC) I agree with much of the sentiment evoked by the expression, especially the first sentence, but the second is technically incorrect — ALL people influence each other in subtle or overt ways. I can agree that coercion by implicit or explicit threats, commands and arrogant demands and guidance should be minimized, thus I could lean toward a 3 for the evocation of such sentiments, but believe the expression is itself flawed, as involving some absolutist assertions in such ways as are not proper or correct.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 23:55, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

 * Le peuple n’a pas, sans doute, le droit de murmurer; mais, sans doute aussi, il a le droit de se taire; et son silence est la leçon des rois.—"The people, no doubt, has not the right to murmur; but, as certainly also, it has the right to hold its peace, and the people’s silence is a lesson to its king." ~ Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Marie de Beauvais
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 03:58, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

title: October 17


text:
November 17

November 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 * There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~ Henry David Thoreau
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. ~ Martin Scorsese (born 17 November 1942)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. ~ Milton Friedman (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence. ~ Voltairine de Cleyre
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. ~ Christopher Paolini
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through. ~ Voltairine de Cleyre
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license"; and they will define and define freedom out of existence. Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. ~ Voltairine de Cleyre
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * Let us have Men, Men who will say a word to their souls and keep it — keep it not when it is easy, but keep it when it is hard — keep it when the storm roars and there is a white-streaked sky and blue thunder before, and one's eyes are blinded and one's ears deafened with the war of opposing things; and keep it under the long leaden sky and the gray dreariness that never lifts. Hold unto the last: that is what it means to have a Dominant Idea, which Circumstance cannot break. And such men make and unmake Circumstance. ~ Voltairine de Cleyre
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, in honor of the NRA being granted charter in NYC
 * 2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 22:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC) This did not seem genuine to me, as in Jefferson's time the issue would hardly be disputed, and a quick check of it finds no sources, and a pro-gun site which declares it bogus. I might add it to the "Misattributed" section on Jefferson's page after finding out more about it.
 * 1 Zarbon 06:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Note to self: religion: freaky. ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar as "Buffy Summers" in "What's My Line, Part 1", Buffy the Vampire Slayer (shown that day)
 * 2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 18:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. ~ Eliza Farnham
 * 2 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. ~ Eliza Farnham
 * 2 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living. ~ Christopher Paolini
 * 2 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. ~ Christopher Paolini
 * 3 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. ~ Soichiro Honda
 * 2 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Because the water raises rice and the fishes live in the water, I don’t want to contaminate it. ~ Soichiro Honda
 * 2 Zarbon 04:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:41, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:41, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

 * The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself. ~ Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 19:35, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

title: November 17


text:
Talk:J. B. S. Haldane

The widely reproduced quote about beetles might have been brought to general attention by Steven Jay Gould, who (according to a post on the STUMPERS-L list: 31 Jul 2003 by John Henderson) attributes it to Haldane speaking at a space flight conference in 1951; the lecture was not published but the quote was reproduced in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society vol. 10, p. 156. I haven't tracked down any of these citations myself. -- wiml

Unsourced

 * I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health, or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Is this right?
I might be missing something, but this Anecdote seems to be reported incorrectly:
 * At Oxford, the young Haldane was frequently asked whether he was related to the "famous John Scott Haldane", his father, and he would answer "That depends on whether you consider identity to be a relationship."

The joke, as I understand, is supposed to be that he is immodestly claiming that it is he who is the famous John Scott Haldane, rather than his father. But the "S" in his name stands for Sanderson, not Scott. So, I think there is a mistake here, perhaps because of how it has been transcribed and truncated.

Lucaswilkins (talk) 16:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

title: Talk:J. B. S. Haldane


text:
December 17

December 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 * From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring, Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. ~ "Arwen" in the film The Return of the King ~
 * selected by Kalki (in relation to the opening of the movie based upon The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien; In the novel The Lord of the Rings this statement first occurs in The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 10, "Strider", in a letter by Gandalf to Frodo.)

 * 2005
 * I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. ~ Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol (first published 19 December 1843, but mistakenly suggested for this date)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * To even mention all the things the bird must constantly keep in mind in order to fly securely through the air would take a considerable part of the evening... The bird has learned this art of equilibrium, and learned it so thoroughly that its skill is not apparent to our sight. We only learn to appreciate it when we try to imitate it. ~ Wilbur Wright (designed the Wright Flyer which flew on 17 December 1903)
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2007
 * It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me. ~ Ford Madox Ford
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" ~ John Greenleaf Whittier ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * All he desired in life was that — that he could pick himself together again and go on with his daily occupations if — the girl, being five thousand miles away, would continue to love him. He wanted nothing more, He prayed his God for nothing more. ~ Ford Madox Ford
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea. ~ Simon Bolivar (died 17 December 1830)
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2011
 * Scrooge was better than his word. … He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One! ~ Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol (first published on 19 December 1843, but mistakenly suggested for this date)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki for the Pope's birthday, a few statements from his inauguration of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, a few days ago, on the 8th of December.

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? ~ Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770; his date of birth is unknown)
 * 2. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 00:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:10, 16 December 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 Zarbon 19:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ~ Attributed to William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (died December 17, 1907, four years to the day after this prediction turned out to be untrue)
 * 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 00:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 19:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 It doesn't appear that William Thomas had anything to do with the pursuit of flight... Lyle 20:07, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, in honour of the Wright brothers' first flight on December 17, 1903. I would probably be willing to use it here, but only with a clear designation of the actual source, which remains somewhat undetermined at present. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 2. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 00:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:10, 16 December 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. this is now recognized as a misattribution; as noted on the Leonardo da Vinci page: "This quotation, which cannot be found in any of da Vinci's writings, was first used in print (and misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci) in a science fiction story published in 1975, The Storms of Windhaven. One of the authors, Lisa Tuttle, remembers that the quote was suggested by science fiction writer Ben Bova, who says he believes he got the quote from a TV documentary narrated by Fredric March, presumably I, Leonardo da Vinci, written by John H. Secondari for the series Saga of Western Man, which aired on 23 February 1965. Bova incorrectly assumed that he was quoting da Vinci. The probable author is John Hermes Secondari (1919-1975), American author and television producer."

 * 3 but preferable on date of birth. Zarbon 19:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 20:07, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur’ to surrender it voluntarily. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
 * 2 Zarbon 06:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:58, 11 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 Cheers to the internet! Lyle 20:07, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:44, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. ~ William Safire in a speech written for Spiro Agnew (Safire born on 17 December 1929)
 * 3 Kalki 18:57, 13 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something. ~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:04, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. ~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:04, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you. ~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:04, 3 December 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:18, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

title: December 17


text:
July 18

July 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ~ Macbeth by William Shakespeare
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Nelson Mandela (born 18 July 1918)
 * proposed by Aphaia
 * Very similar statements are attributed to others, but this particular form seems to be sourced to his autobiography.

 * 2006
 * To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is not greatness? ~ William Makepeace Thackeray (born 18 July 1811)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * When I die, my money's not gonna come with me. My movies will live on for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious. - Interview for London's Sunday Telegraph magazine, November 2007 ~ Heath Ledger (release date for his final major movie role as The Joker in The Dark Knight) (FYI, Ledger unexpectedly died earlier this year and this is his last film)
 * proposed by Boylo

 * 2009
 * It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved. But I know that that is not the case. The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning. ~ Nelson Mandela
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. ~ Nelson Mandela
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to his recent death.

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

 * If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
 * used 23 February 2005; selected by Kalki

 * We picked up everything we could get our hands on. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug-collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
 * used 20 February 2006, proposed by User:Sir John Alexander Macdonald

 * The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us. ~ Nelson Mandela
 * used 9 May 2006, selected by Kalki

 * Used 10 December 2020; proposed by Jeandré du Toit<!-- : Originally suggested at 21 March, moved here (and with extended form to 10 December), as more appropriate dates.

"Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. Let the efforts of us all, prove that he was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold." - Nelson Mandela, acceptance and Nobel lecture, (1993-12-10) * 3 Kalki 21:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC) Despite the merits of the quote, I am inclined to seek to use it another day, and focus on "Spring" quotes for this date (21 March). Note: It has become far more established a norm to post quotes with relationships to the dates, and after today, I will be moving this to 2 alternative dates 18 July which is Mandela's birthday, and in slightly extended form to the date of its delivery 10 December, which happens to be "Human Rights Day", and the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am currently very inclined to use it on that date this year. ~ Kalki 2020·03·20 // This was indeed used on that date. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:08, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
 * proposed by User:Jeandré (20 March 2007) > [renamed] >
 * 3, to be used on a day associated with King or Mandela. - InvisibleSun 23:23, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:25, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Originally suggested at 21 March, but moved here (and 18 July), as more appropriate dates.

"Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. Let the efforts of us all, prove that he was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold." - Nelson Mandela, acceptance and Nobel lecture, (1993-12-10) Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. Let the efforts of us all, prove that he was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. Let a new age dawn!
 * proposed by User:Jeandré (20 March 2007) > [renamed] >
 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC) 3 Kalki 21:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC) /// Despite the merits of the quote, I am inclined to seek to use it another day, and focus on "Spring" quotes for this date (21 March). Note: It has become far more established a norm to post quotes with relationships to the dates, and after today, I will be moving I have now moved this to 2 alternative dates 18 July which is Mandela's birthday, and in slightly extended form to the date of its delivery 10 December, which happens to be "Human Rights Day", and the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am currently very inclined to use it on that date this year. ~ Kalki 2020·03·20, also prefer to extend it for context to read:
 * Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates.

 * 3, to be used on a day associated with King or Mandela. - InvisibleSun 23:23, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:25, 23 April 2008 (UTC) -->

Suggestions
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook. ~ Adolf Hitler, from Mein Kampf (published that day)
 * 2 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:20, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:17, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 but on a more relative date. Zarbon 06:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
 * 3 Kalki 18:43, 17 July 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. ~ Heath Ledger
 * 2 Kalki 01:21, 20 July 2008 (UTC) 4 Kalki 21:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC) different quote was used for actual opening day of The Dark Night thus downgrading my ranking of this one.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:06, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~ Nelson Mandela (birthday)

 * 2 Kalki 19:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Boychick, wake up! Be something! Make your life something good. For the love of an old man who sees in your young days his new life, for such love take the world in your two hands and make it like new. Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. ~ Clifford Odets (DoB)
 * 3 Ningauble 17:56, 23 June 2009 (UTC) seasonally appropriate for recent graduates (and a non-recent-graduate nephew of mine)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:06, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
 * 3 Kalki 19:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:17, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Bravery never goes out of fashion. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
 * 3 Kalki 19:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 18:17, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers. ~ Thomas Samuel Kuhn
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here — not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who see it coming and jump aside. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I detest racialism because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. ~ Nelson Mandela
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ~ Nelson Mandela
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ~ Nelson Mandela
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. ~ Nelson Mandela
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. ~ Nelson Mandela
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

It always seems impossible, until it is done. ~ Nelson Mandela
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
 * 3 bystander (talk) 06:40, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:57, 16 July 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

title: July 18


text:
August 18

August 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * It's a thingy! A fiendish thingy! ~ George Harrison in Help!
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * The best mind-altering drug is the truth. ~ Lily Tomlin
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If you continue to hate, you are entering into the same philosophy that began the war. You have to look forward at people and new times. ~ Roman Polański (born 18 August 1933)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. ~ Brian Aldiss (born 18 August 1925)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * What we say is the truth is what everybody accepts … Psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith. ~ Madeleine Stowe as "Dr. Kathryn Railly" in Twelve Monkeys (born 18 August 1958)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with! ~ Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita (50th anniversary of its publication in the United States on 18 August 1958)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2009
 * Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. ~ Robert Williams Buchanan ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * I saw the starry Tree Eternity Put forth the blossom Time. ~ Robert Williams Buchanan ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I ask no more from mortals Than your beautiful face implies,— The beauty the artist beholding Interprets and sanctifies. Who says that men have fallen, That life is wretched and rough? I say, the world is lovely, And that loveliness is enough. ~ Robert Williams Buchanan ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks conceding an election defeat while declaring a firm determination to uphold truth against lies.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has. - Genghis Khan, died this day.
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:32, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 12:00, 16 August 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 0.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 because the desire to completely dominate exists in mankind and this quote says it perfectly, Khan had the tendency to say it as it was. Zarbon 15:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC) Not for the content / meaning, but I think it fits well as QOTD.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. ~ Roman Polański (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 12:12, 16 August 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:31, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 CensoredScribe, 4 if the image references either Rosemary's Baby, or The Pianist; although an image from a film about occultists with a quote about realism is an odd combination. CensoredScribe (talk) 23:10, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Ach! I know. If I were to play the Pathetique or the Moonlight Sonata for the high judges, they would let me off. But my defense unfortunately will not be musical. ~ Walther Funk (born August 18)
 * 3 because the sheer thought of a musical defense would be interesting. Zarbon 04:29, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 82
 * 1 Kalki 08:13, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:46, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC) I usually do not agree with Zarbon's votes here (and never his reasonings), but there is "something" to this quote.

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano. ~ Walther Funk (born August 18)
 * 4 because I like both contralto's and soprano's. And I'm sure both types of women would sing well. This is a very nice musical dynamic personification. Zarbon 04:29, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 83
 * 1 Kalki 08:13, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:46, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Cassandra in Greek legend, you recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it.. ~ Madeleine Stowe as "Dr. Kathryn Railly" in Twelve Monkeys
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:42, 16 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors. ~ Madeleine Stowe
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:42, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. ~ Madeleine Stowe
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:42, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:12, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

title: August 18