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The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show is a 1971 film about the coming of age of two young men in west Texas in the early 1950s.
 * Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Written by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich, based on McMurtry's novel.

Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed...

Ruth Popper

 * [to Sonny] What am I doing apologizin' to you? Why am I always apologizin' to you, ya little bastard? Three months I been apologizing to you, without you even bein' here. I haven't done anything wrong - why can't I quit apologizin'? You're the one oughta be sorry. I wouldn't still be in my bathrobe if it hadn't been for you. I'da had my clothes on hours ago. You're the one made me quit carin' if I got dressed or not. I guess just because your friend got killed you want me to forget what you did and make it all right. I'm not sorry for you. You'd've left Billy, too, just like you left me. I bet you left him plenty a nights, whenever Jacy whistled. I wouldn't treat a dog that way. I guess you thought I was so old and ugly you didn't owe me any explanation. You didn't need to be careful of me. There wasn't anythin' I could do about you and her - why should you be careful of me? You didn't love me. Look at me. Can't you even look at me? Y'see? You shouldn't have come here. I'm around that corner now. You've ruined it and it's lost completely. Just your needing me won't make it come back. [pause] Never you mind, honey, never you mind.

Genevieve

 * One thing I know for sure - a person can't sneeze in this town without somebody offerin' him a handkerchief...it's an awful small town for any kinda carryin' on...And some people got a lotta guns.

Dialogue

 * Sonny: [about his football game] Coulda been worse...
 * Sam: Yeah. You can say that about nearly everything, I guess.

 * Charlene: We've been goin' steady a year tonight.
 * Sonny: Yeah? Seems like a lot longer.
 * Charlene: You shoulda got me some anniversary present.
 * Sonny: You can have another stick of gum - that's all I got on me.

 * Genevieve: [about Charlene] She doesn't have a good disposition - what are you blue about then?
 * Sonny: Ain't nobody to go with in this town. Jacy's the only pretty girl in school and Duane's got her.
 * Genevieve: I'd call that his tough luck...Jacy'll bring him more misery than she'll ever be worth.

 * Lois: I'd just hate to see you marry him, that's all. You wouldn't be rich anymore, and in about two months...
 * Jacy: I don't care about money...
 * Lois: ...he'd quit flattering you.
 * Jacy: Not at all.
 * Lois: Well, you're pretty stupid then.
 * Jacy: Well, you married Daddy when he was poor. And he got rich, didn't he?
 * Lois: I scared your Daddy into gettin' rich, beautiful.
 * Jacy: Well, if Daddy could do it, Duane could too.
 * Lois: Not married to you. You're not scary enough.
 * Jacy: Well, you're rich and you're miserable. I sure don't want to be like you.
 * Lois: Not much danger of that.

 * Jacy: Why can't I just stay here and go to college in Wichita Falls?
 * Lois: Because everything is flat and empty here, and nothin' to do. Just remember, beautiful, everything gets old if you do it often enough. So if you wanna find out about monotony real quick, marry Duane.

 * Sam: You wouldn't believe how this country's changed. First time I seen it, there wasn't a mesquite tree on it, or a prickly pear neither. I used to own this land, you know. First time I watered a horse at this tank was - more than forty years ago. I reckon the reason why I always drag you out here is probably I'm just as sentimental as the next fella when it comes to old times. Old times. I brought a young lady swimmin' out here once, more than 20 years ago. Was after my wife had lost her mind and my boys was dead. Me and this young lady was pretty wild, I guess. In pretty deep. We used to come out here on horseback and go swimmin' without no bathing suits. One day, she wanted to swim the horses across this tank. Kind of a crazy thing to do, but we done it anyway. She bet me a silver dollar she could beat me across. She did. This old horse I was ridin' didn't want to take the water. But she was always lookin' for somethin' to do like that. Somethin' wild. I'll bet she's still got that silver dollar.
 * Sonny: Whatever happened to her?
 * Sam: Oh, she growed up. She was just a girl then, really...
 * Sonny: Why didn't you ever marry her after your wife died?
 * Sam: She was already married. Her and her husband was young and miserable with one another like so many young married folks are. I thought they'd change with some age, but it didn't turn out that way.
 * Sonny: Bein' married always so miserable?
 * Sam: No, not really. About eighty percent of the time, I guess. We oughta go to a real fishin' tank next year. Aw, too late to think about things like that too much. If she was here, I'd probably be just as crazy now as I was then in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous? Naw, it ain't really. 'Cause bein' crazy 'bout a woman like her's always the right thing to do. Bein' a decrepit old bag of bones - that's what's ridiculous - gettin' old.

 * Bobby: You a virgin?
 * Jacy: I guess I am.
 * Bobby: Too bad.
 * Jacy: I don't wanna be, though.
 * Bobby: I don't blame ya. Come see me when you're not.

 * Jacy: Oh Duane, hurry. What's wrong, honey?
 * Duane: Uh, I don't know.
 * Jacy: That tickles. You know I can't stand to be tickled. Well, what's the matter? Aren't you gonna do it?
 * Duane: I don't know what's wrong.
 * Jacy: What do you mean? How could anything be wrong? Just go on and do it. Oh! What's the matter with you?
 * Duane: I don't know. I don't know. Somethin's happened.
 * Jacy: Well, get off a minute, for goodness sake. You might fall and mash me. It's 'cause you and Sonny went down to Mexico. No telling what you got down there. I just hate you. I don't know why I ever went with you. Put some clothes on! You think I wanna sit around here and look at you nekkid? I might never get to not be a virgin. I think you're the meanest boy I ever saw. My mother was dead right about you. You better not tell one soul - you just pretend it was wonderful.

 * Jacy: [about Abilene] Oh, he's just awful, Momma. Why do you fool with him? Daddy's a nicer man than him, isn't he?
 * Lois: He sure is, beautiful. Your Daddy's a very nice man. I oughta been givin' Abilene hell, instead of him.
 * Jacy: I don't know what I'm gonna do. Bobby was the last one - I'm just gonna be an old maid.
 * Lois: Oh no, honey, that's just the way it goes sometimes, you know. You win a few, you lose a few.
 * Jacy: What do you do? Nothin's ever the way it's supposed to be at all.
 * Lois: You're right, come on. I wanna tell you somethin'. What I've done has not worked out too well. I think maybe we better think of somethin' else for you.

 * Sonny: [about Jacy] Sure, I been goin' with her, why not?
 * Duane: I never said I blamed you for it. I don't blame you much. I just never thought you'd do me that way. I thought we was still best friends.
 * Sonny: We are. What's you so mad for? I never done nothin' to you.
 * Duane: I guess screwin' my girl ain't nothin' to you.
 * Sonny: I ain't screwin' her.
 * Duane: The hell you ain't.
 * Sonny: Well, I ain't. But she's not your girl anymore, anyway.
 * Duane: She is my girl. I don't care if we did break up.

 * Jacy: You just can't believe how famous we are. We're all anybody talks about in this town now...I want us to get married...Just as soon as you want to. Don't you want to?...I bet the whole town'll be knocked for a loop if we do. They'll never forget it.
 * Sonny: But ain't you goin' to college?
 * Jacy: Oh, I don't care about that. I love you, and that's more important. You were so dear to fight for me. My folks won't like it, but we can run off.
 * Sonny: They'll kill us.
 * Jacy: Oh, no they won't.
 * Sonny: Kill me, anyhow.
 * Jacy: They'll get over it. You're workin' for Daddy now anyway, and pretty soon they'll love you just as much as I do. [they kiss] Can we?
 * Sonny: Sure. I just hope I can see to drive.
 * Jacy: Don't you worry. I can drive.

 * Sonny: Nothin's really been right since Sam the Lion died.
 * Lois: No, no it hasn't. Oh God, I get sad if I think of Sam for long. Did you know he had beautiful hands?
 * Sonny: I guess you liked him, didn't you? Aw, I guess everybody did.
 * Lois: Well, I tell you, it was different with me, Sonny. I loved him. He loved me, too.
 * Sonny: Are you - are you the one he used to take swimmin'? Out at the tank?
 * Lois: He told you about that, huh? Yeah, I was the one. I guess if it wasn't for Sam, I'd just about have missed it, whatever it is. I'd have been one of them Amity types that thinks that playin' bridge is about the best thing that life has to offer. Old Sam the Lion. Sam the Lion - you know, nobody knows where he got that name. I gave it to him. One night, well, it just came to me. He was so pleased. I was 22 years old then. Can you imagine? I'll tell you, Sonny, it's terrible to only meet one man in your whole life who knows what you're worth. Just terrible. I've looked, too. You wouldn't believe how I've looked.
 * Sonny: Well, now I know why Sam liked you.
 * Lois: Loved me.
 * Sonny: Loved ya, I mean.
 * Lois: Do you? Well, I can kinda see what he saw in you, too. Nope, I'll just go on home. Go on, get out.
 * Sonny: Think I can - think I can learn to drink?
 * Lois: You might. You'd better keep on practicing.

 * Miss Mosey: Nobody wants to come to shows no more. Kids got baseball in the summer, television all the time. If Sam had lived, I believe we could've kept it goin'. But I just didn't have the know-how.
 * Duane: Won't be much to do in town with the picture show closed.
 * Sonny: Yeah.

Cast

 * Timothy Bottoms - Sonny Crawford
 * Jeff Bridges - Duane Jackson
 * Cybill Shepherd - Jacy Farrow
 * Ben Johnson - Sam the Lion
 * Cloris Leachman - Ruth Popper
 * Ellen Burstyn - Lois Farrow
 * Eileen Brennan - Genevieve
 * Clu Gulager - Abilene
 * Sam Bottoms - Billy
 * Sharon Ullrick - Charlene Duggs
 * Randy Quaid - Lester Marlow
 * Joe Heathcock - The Sheriff
 * Bill Thurman - Coach Popper
 * Barc Doyle - Joe Bob Blanton
 * Jessie Lee Fulton - Miss Mosey

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Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician. He is usually considered as one of the architects of appeasement before World War II. During the period, he held several ministerial posts in the cabinet, including Foreign Secretary at the time of the Munich crisis in 1938. He later was dismissed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1940 when he expressed support for a negotiated settlement with Nazi Germany, although he was then appointed British Ambassador to the United States. He succeeded Lord Reading as Viceroy of India in April 1926, a post he held until 1931. In this role he held negotiations on constitutional reforms to the British Raj with the Indian National Congress under Mohandas Gandhi.

Backbench MP

 * Instead of deluding public opinion with a notion that a sufficient application of force will provide a remedy, a wiser course would be to set about taking such steps as may be the means of recovering that consent without which society in Ireland cannot exist...[an offer should be made to the Irish] conceived on the most generous lines.
 * Speech in the House of Commons on the Irish insurgency after the Great War, quoted in Lord Birkenhead, Halifax (1965), pp. 121-122

Viceroy of India

 * In the name of Indian national life, in the name of religion, I appeal to all in each of the two countries who hold position...let them begin each in their own community to work untiringly towards this end: boldly to repudiate feelings of hatred and intolerance, actively to condemn and suppress acts of violence and aggression, earnestly to strive to exorcise suspicions...I appeal in the name of national life because communal tension is eating into it as a canker...I appeal in the name of religion because I can appeal to nothing nobler, and because religion is the language of the soul, and it is a change of soul that India needs today.
 * Speech as Viceroy of India (1926), quoted in Birkenhead, Halifax (1965), pp. 223-234

 * Though I am, as you know, a pacifist by nature, I am not disposed to go to all lengths to meet people who seem to be behaving with utter unreason.
 * Letter to William Wedgwood Benn, quoted in Birkenhead, Halifax (1965), p. 275

 * I am authorized on behalf of His Majesty's Government to state clearly that in their judgment it is implicit in the declaration of 1917 that the natural issue of India's constitutional progress, as there contemplated, is the attainment of Dominion status.
 * Statement in a Gazette of India Extraordinary (31 October 1929), quoted in The Times (1 November 1929), p. 16

 * [It is] a question of personal appeal and conviction, rather than any argument. The cards I fancy are sympathy, understanding of his hopes, suspicions and disappointments, but above all, striving to convey to him, through what one says, a real echo of the sincerity that pervaded your doings in London.
 * Letter (16 February 1931), quoted in Birkenhead, Halifax (1965), p. 296

Lord Privy Seal

 * [The Hoare-Laval proposals] were not so frightfully different from those put forward by the Committee of Five [of the League of Nations]. But the latter were of respectable parentage: and the Paris ones were too much like the off-the-stage arrangements of nineteenth-century diplomacy.
 * In 1935. Quoted in Keith Feiling, A Life of Neville Chamberlain (1970), p. 275

Lord President of the Council

 * Nationalism and Racialism is a powerful force but I can't feel that it's either unnatural or immoral! I cannot myself doubt that these fellows are genuine haters of Communism, etc.! And I daresay if we were in their position we might feel the same!
 * Letter to Stanley Baldwin (15 November 1937), quoted in Andrew Roberts ‘The Holy Fox’: The Life of Lord Halifax (1997), p. 282

 * After a day in Berlin I was taken off to Berchtesgaden which we reached after a night in the special train, and were driven by what I assumed to be storm-troopers straight up to Hitler's chalet. Snow was on the ground and a path had been swept up to the steep steps to the house. As I looked out of the car window, on eye level, I saw in the middle of this swept path a pair of black trousered legs, finishing up in silk socks and pumps. I assumed this was a footman who had come down to help me out of the car and up the steps, and was proceeding in leisurely fashion to get myself out of the car when I heard Von Neurath or somebody throwing a hoarse whisper at my ear of ‘Der Führer, der Führer’; and it then dawned upon me that the legs were not the legs of a footman, but of Hitler.
 * Diary entry (19 November 1937), quoted in Lord Halifax, Fulness of Days (1957), p. 185

 * Hitler invited me to begin our discussion, which I did by thanking him for giving me this opportunity. I hoped it might be the means of creating better understanding between our two countries. The feeling of His Majesty's Government was that it ought to be within our power, if we could once come to a fairly complete appreciation of each other's position, and if we were both prepared to work together for the cause of peace, to make a large contribution to it. Although there was much in the Nazi system that profoundly offended British opinion, I was not blind to what he (Hitler) had done for Germany, and to the achievement from his point of view of keeping Communism out of his country.
 * Diary entry (19 November 1937), quoted in Lord Halifax, Fulness of Days (1957), p. 185

 * He [Hitler] did not challenge this and said that formal agreement between the four Powers [Britain, France, Germany and Italy] might not be very difficult to achieve. It would not, however, be worth much unless it took account of realities, even if unpleasant. Germany had had to recognise such a reality in the shape of Poland; and we all had to recognise such a reality in acknowledging Germany to be a great Power; we had to get away from the Versailles mentality and recognise that the world could never remain in statu quo. To this I replied that nobody wished to treat Germany as anything but a great Power, and that nobody in their senses supposed the world could stay as it was for ever. The whole point was how changes were to be brought about. This led him to say that there were two, and only two, alternatives: the free play of forces that meant war; and settlement by reason. The world had had experience of the first: was it able to prefer the second?
 * Diary entry (19 November 1937), quoted in Lord Halifax, Fulness of Days (1957), pp. 185-186

 * He [Hitler] then asked me what other problems there were between us... I replied that British opinion would be glad to know what might be his present attitude to the League of Nations and to Disarmament. There were no doubt other questions arising out of the Versailles settlement which were capable of causing trouble if they were unwisely handled:—Danzig, Austria, Czechoslovakia. On all these matters we were not necessarily concerned to stand for the status quo as of to-day, but we were very much concerned to secure the avoidance of such treatment of them as would be likely to cause trouble. If reasonable settlement could be reached with the free assent of those primarily concerned, we certainly had no desire to block them.
 * Diary entry (19 November 1937), quoted in Lord Halifax, Fulness of Days (1957), pp. 186-187

 * Hitler was on the whole quiet and restrained, except now and again when he got excited; over Russia or the Press. I can quite see why he is a popular speaker; very much alive, eyes, which I was surprised were blue, moving about all the time, points in the argument reinforced by sharp gestures of the hands. And the play of emotion—sardonic humour, scorn, something almost wistful—is rapid.
 * Diary entry (19 November 1937), quoted in Lord Halifax, Fulness of Days (1957), pp. 188

 * One had a feeling all the time that we had a totally different set of values and were speaking in a different language. It was not only the difference between a totalitarian and democratic state. He gave me the impression of feeling that, whilst he had attained power only after a hard struggle with present-day realities, the British Government was still living comfortably in a world of its own making, a fairy-land of strange, if respectable, illusions. It clung to shibboleths—‘collective security,’ ‘general settlement,’ ‘disarmament,’ ‘non-aggression pacts’—which offered no practical prospect of a solution of Europe's difficulties. He regards the whole conception embodied in a League of States equal in their rights of sovereignty as unreal, based on no foundation of fact; and consequently does not believe that discussions between large numbers of nations, with varying interests and of quite unequal value, can lead anywhere. Hence his preference for dealing with particular problems in isolation. With this goes the distrust of the democratic method, to him inefficient, blundering, paralysed by its love of talk, and totally unsuited to the rough world, constantly changing, in which we had to live.
 * Diary entry (19 November 1937), quoted in Lord Halifax, Fulness of Days (1957), pp. 189

Foreign Secretary

 * Nothing was more likely to aggravate the difficulties of the present situation than any suggestions that our ultimate objective was to unite France, Italy and ourselves against Germany.
 * Remarks to the Cabinet (15 March 1938), quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power (1972), p. 450

 * [W]e are all alike determined to throw all our weight on the side of securing world peace through respect for law based on just settlements. We have no use for a world society in which law would be expected to be the obedient handmaid of lawless force; and we are all resolved to preserve British rights and liberties against attack, from whatever quarter within or without the State these may come.
 * Speech to the annual dinner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (21 June 1938), quoted in The Times (22 June 1938), p. 18

 * [A] great mistake would be made abroad if it was ever thought that our domestic controversies upon the day-to-day conduct of foreign policy would in the least degree affect the primary instinct of our people to stand solidly together in any real emergency. Both our history and our character had given us a sense of community which, while enabling us to face facts and make peaceful changes, protected us from being revolutionary.
 * Speech to the annual dinner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (21 June 1938), quoted in The Times (22 June 1938), p. 18

 * Herr Hitler was possibly or even probably mad.
 * Remarks to the Cabinet (12 September 1938), quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power (1972), p. 521

 * [O]ne of the principal lessons of these events is that the diplomacy of any nation can only be commensurate with its strength, and that if we desire this country to exercise its full influence in world affairs, the first thing that we have to do is to ensure that it is in all ways fully and rapidly equipped to do so.
 * Speech in the House of Lords on the Munich Agreement (3 October 1938)

 * In a time of crisis, with grave questions demanding urgent answer at every moment, no body of men would dare claim to be judged infallible. There was indeed no clear way, but almost always a hideous choice of evils. I can only know, for myself, that my mind will be at rest for having taken no decision inconsistent with what on all the facts I felt right.
 * Speech in the House of Lords on the Munich Agreement (3 October 1938)

 * A year ago we had undertaken no specific commitments on the Continent of Europe, beyond those which had then existed. ... To-day we are bound by new agreements for mutual defence with Poland and Turkey; we have guaranteed assistance to Greece and Rumania against aggression. ... We know that, if the security and independence of other countries are to disappear, our own security and our own independence will be gravely threatened. We know that if international law and order is to be preserved, we must be prepared to fight in its defence.
 * Speech to the annual dinner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (29 June 1939), quoted in The Times (30 June 1939), p. 9

 * What is also now fully and universally accepted in this country, but what may not even yet be as well understood elsewhere, is that, in the event of further aggression, we are resolved to use at once the whole of our strength in fulfilment of our pledges to resist it.
 * Speech to the annual dinner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (29 June 1939), quoted in The Times (30 June 1939), p. 9

 * At this moment the doctrine of force bars the way to settlement and fills the world with envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness. But if the doctrine of force were once abandoned, so that the fear of war that stalks the world was lifted, all outstanding questions would become easier to solve.
 * Speech to the annual dinner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (29 June 1939), quoted in The Times (30 June 1939), p. 9

 * The threat of military force is holding the world to ransom, and our immediate task is...to resist aggression.
 * Speech to the annual dinner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (29 June 1939), quoted in The Times (30 June 1939), p. 9

 * The racial doctrine, as interpreted in the Nazi creed, may be, and in my view is, sheer primitive nonsense; and we are no more prepared to admit German superiority of race than we are concerned to assert our own. ... when this doctrine is invoked in justification of the oppression of other races it becomes a crime against humanity.
 * Speech to the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford (27 February 1940), quoted in The Times (28 February 1940), p. 10

 * Not only does it deny the corporate claim to liberty of men and women organized in national societies, but it refuses the much more fundamental claim of men and women to the free expression of human personality, which rests upon the eternal value of every human soul. True pride of race may be tested by the behaviour of its possessors towards their own fellow citizens and towards others. It will forbid conduct to individuals of which they should be ashamed in their private lives. It is thus evidently something far removed from the ideal of a race which by the German philosophy of to-day is called to stamp out the civilization of another. Between these two conceptions there is a great gulf fixed. ... Until these false creeds are abjured, and replaced by a wider toleration, they must continue to excite resistance. The future of humanity must not be left in the hands of those who would imprison and enslave it.
 * Speech to the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford (27 February 1940), quoted in The Times (28 February 1940), p. 10

 * [T]he broad record of the British race stands to be judged on facts that are incontestable. It is the fact that during the nineteenth century, when the power of this country was unchallenged, there was no nation in Europe that felt for that reason insecure, or that did not recognize our power to be an instrument of peace. The Pax Britannica has been no empty or self-righteous boast of purpose. It is the fact too that in every corner of the world where men of British race have established influence, there by immutable law of nature you find established the seed and plant of liberty. It is the trail by which is marked their progress, interpreted to all by the standards of good faith, respect for law, and equal justice. Most truly, therefore, of our people was it said: “Their country's cause is the high cause of freedom and honour. That fairest earthly fame, the fame of freedom, is inseparable from the names of Albion, Britain, England.”
 * Speech in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford (27 February 1940), quoted in The Times (28 February 1940), p. 10

 * My message to you to-day...is to be so proud of the race to which you belong that you will be as jealous of its honour as you are of its safety, and that you will fight for both with equal determination. The struggle will be arduous, it may be long, and it will certainly demand of our nation that it should withhold nothing that may contribute to our strength.
 * Speech in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford (27 February 1940), quoted in The Times (28 February 1940), p. 10

 * [W]e had to face the fact that it was not so much now a question of imposing a complete defeat on Germany but of safeguarding the independence of our own Empire and if possible that of France.
 * Remarks to the Cabinet (26 May 1940), quoted in Andrew Roberts, ‘The Holy Fox’: The Life of Lord Halifax (1997), p. 216

 * [I]f he [ Mussolini] would use his influence [on Hitler] to get reasonable terms which did not menace our independence and offered a prospect of a just and durable settlement of Europe we would try and meet his own claims. ... If the terms were impossible we could always reject them.
 * Remarks to the Cabinet (26 May 1940), quoted in Andrew Roberts, ‘The Holy Fox’: The Life of Lord Halifax (1997), pp. 216–217

 * [I]f we got to the point of discussing the terms of a general settlement and found that we could obtain terms which did not postulate the destruction of our independence, we should be foolish if we did not accept them.
 * Remarks to the Cabinet (26 May 1940), quoted in Andrew Roberts, ‘The Holy Fox’: The Life of Lord Halifax (1997), p. 218

 * [ Churchill's plan] meant that the future of the country turned on whether the enemy's bombs happened to hit our aircraft factories. ... he was prepared to take that risk if our independence was at stake; but if it was not at stake he would think it right to accept an offer which would save the country from avoidable disaster.
 * Remarks to the Cabinet (27 May 1940), quoted in Andrew Roberts, ‘The Holy Fox’: The Life of Lord Halifax (1997), p. 220

 * [W]e should be prepared to say that we were prepared to fight to the death for our independence, but that, provided this could be secured, there were certain concessions that we were prepared to make to Italy.
 * Remarks to the War Cabinet (28 May 1940), quoted in Andrew Roberts, ‘The Holy Fox’: The Life of Lord Halifax (1997), p. 224

 * If only we could find out for certain where Hitler and Mussolini are meeting tomorrow, and get one well-placed bomb, then the world might really take on a different appearance.
 * Diary (17 June 1940), quoted in Andrew Roberts, ‘The Holy Fox’: The Life of Lord Halifax (1997), p. 237

 * Bad faith, cruelty, crime become right by the fact that it is he, Hitler, who ordains them. That is the fundamental challenge of anti-Christ; which it is our duty as Christians to fight with all our power. The peoples of the British Commonwealth, along with all those who love truth and justice and freedom, will never accept this new world of Hitler's. Free men, not slaves; free nations, not German vassals; a community of nations, freely cooperating for the good of all—these are the pillars of the new and better order that the British people wish to see.
 * Broadcast (22 July 1940), quoted in The Times (23 July 1940), p. 5

 * Hitler may plant the swastika where he will, but unless he can sap the strength of Britain the foundations of his Empire are built on sand. In their hearts the peoples that he has beaten down curse him and pray that his attacks may be broken on the defences of our island fortress. They long for the day when we shall sally forth and return blow for blow. We shall assuredly not disappoint them. Then will come the day of final reckoning when Hitler's mad plans for Europe will be shattered by the unconquerable passion of man for freedom.
 * Broadcast (22 July 1940), quoted in The Times (23 July 1940), p. 5

Ambassador to the United States

 * As we begin to look beyond the war to the re-ordering of the world which must follow, we see three great Powers, the United States, Russia, and China. ... In the company of these Titans Britain, apart from the rest of the Commonwealth and Empire, could hardly claim equal partnership. ... If, in the future, Britain is to play her part without assuming burdens greater than she can support she must have with her in peace the same strength that has sustained her in this war. Not Great Britain only, but the British Commonwealth and Empire must be the fourth Power in that group upon which, under Providence, the peace of the world will henceforth depend.
 * Speech to centenary dinner of the Toronto Board of Trade (24 January 1944), quoted in The Times (25 January 1944), p. 3

Later life

 * The advent of Hitler to power in 1933 had coincided with a high tide of wholly irrational pacifist sentiment in Britain, which caused profound damage both at home and abroad. At home it immensely aggravated the difficulty, great in any case it was bound to be, of bringing the British people to appreciate and face up to the new situation which Hitler was creating: abroad it doubtless served to tempt him and others to suppose that in shaping their policies this country need not be too seriously regarded.
 * Fulness of Days (1957), p. 181

 * One such interlude early in June 1940 is for ever graven into my memory. It was just after the fall of France, an event which at the time it happened seemed something unbelievable as to be almost surely unreal, and if not unreal then quite immeasurably catastrophic. Dorothy and I had spent a lovely summer evening walking over the Wolds, and on our way home sat in the sun for half an hour at a point looking across the plain of York. All the landscape of the nearer foreground was familiar—its sights, its sounds, its smells; hardly a field that did not call up some half-forgotten bit of association; the red-roofed village and nearby hamlets, gathered as it were for company round the old greystone church, where men and women like ourselves, now long dead and gone, had once knelt in worship and prayer. Here in Yorkshire was a true fragment of the undying England, like the White Cliffs of Dover, or any other part of our land that Englishmen have loved. Then the question came, is it possible that the Prussian jackboot will force its way into this countryside to tread and trample over it at will? The very thought seemed an insult and an outrage; much as if anyone were to be condemned to watch his mother, wife or daughter being raped.
 * Fulness of Days (1957), p. 215

Attributed

 * Common sense and not bravado would dictate the British Government's policy.
 * Remark to Rab Butler contained in the Björn Prytz telegram (17 June 1940), quoted in Andrew Roberts, ‘The Holy Fox’: The Life of Lord Halifax (Phoenix, 1997), p. 232

Quotes about Halifax

 * [I]f ever the day comes when the party which I lead ceases to attract to itself men of the calibre of Edward Wood, then I have finished with my party.
 * Stanley Baldwin, speech in the House of Commons (7 November 1929)

 * I do not doubt that his viceroyalty was the greatest episode in a varied and distinguished career, and that the comprehending and enlightened policy he pursued, culminating in his Pact with Gandhi, was both realistic and right.
 * Rab Butler, The Art of the Possible (1971), p. 40

 * In June [1931] I attended a meeting in the House of Commons of the India Committee, normally composed of those Conservative back-benchers with a special interest in Indian affairs. It was a sign of the times that most of the party had turned up. Irwin, gaunt and sombre, was flanked by Winterton, Lloyd and Churchill. His replies to their questions were agile and tinged with irony. But his speech, apparently unprepared and certainly unpolished, seemed disappointing, even disillusioning. He asked us to keep the account private, for fear of embarrassing Lord Willingdon, who was to be his successor as Viceroy. Despite this, the Daily Telegraph came out next morning with striking headlines. The speech in its entirety had, however, been even more striking. It began with references to the growth of nationalism and to the fact, as he put it, that owing to the Russo-Japanese war and the looseness of Western women as depicted in films, our prestige in the East was gone. An incredulous gasp greeted this sacrilege.
 * Rab Butler, The Art of the Possible (1971), p. 41

 * On 16th March, 1939, the day after Czechoslovakia fell to pieces and Hitler occupied Prague, I lunched at No. 10 with Neville Chamberlain and Edward Halifax. The Prime Minister said with resignation, but with our solemn approval, "I have decided that I cannot trust the Nazi leaders again." Next day he made a speech to the Birmingham Unionist Association which I described to his P.P.S., Alec Douglas-Home, as being more like an oration by the younger Pitt. Halifax said later that it was he who had insisted on the need for this fighting speech as the prelude to a revolution in foreign policy. I am sure that this was true.
 * Rab Butler, The Art of the Possible (1971), p. 77

 * I reflected on Halifax's extraordinary character; his high principles, his engaging charm and grand manner – his power to frighten people into fits – me sometimes – his snobbishness – his eel-like qualities and, above all, his sublime treachery which is never deliberate, and, always to him, a necessity dictated by a situation. Means are nothing to him, only ends. He is insinuating, but unlovable.
 * Henry Channon, diary entry (3 June 1940), quoted in Robert Rhodes James (ed.), Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon (1967), pp. 255–256

 * Edward [Halifax] seemed to suggest that Winston was a handicap to the Conservative Party. At last I turned on him. "I don't know what you are getting at," I said rather hotly. "If the country had depended on you we might have lost the war." Edward was furious and demanded an apology. Later he talked to Winston, saying I ought to apologize. Winston replied he hoped I'd do nothing of the sort. You see, Charles, Edward Halifax has been spoilt. Baldwin was largely responsible.
 * Clementine Churchill in conversation with Lord Moran (24 July 1953), quoted in Lord Moran, Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965 (1966; 1968), p. 467

 * Halifax's virtues have done more harm in the world than the vices of hundreds of other people. And yet when I meet him, I can't help having friendly talk.
 * Winston Churchill in conversation with Lord Moran (7 December 1947), quoted in Lord Moran, Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965 (1966; 1968), p. 351

 * To history, until yesterday, Halifax was the arch-appeaser. This, it is now recognised, was a mistake. His rôle, however, was complicated. In these pages he is not the man who stopped the rot, but the embodiment of Conservative wisdom who decided that Hitler must be obstructed because Labour could not otherwise be resisted.
 * Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler. British Politics and British Policy, 1933–1940 (1975), p. 9

 * In the course of the great Viceroy's interview, he was told by Hitler that the proper way to deal with unrest in India was to shoot first Gandhi and then the leaders of the Congress. Halifax's sweet and Christian nature must have recoiled from this sort of barbarism; but he was too courteous to show his disgust. Unhappily, in the course of this long discussion, he did not reject with sufficient force Hitler's new thesis. This was that changes of territory and shifts of power in a changing world could come about only by one of two methods—either by war or by what he called the "higher reason"... Halifax should have rejected this argument with vigour. On the contrary, he referred to possible modifications which might come in due course over Danzig, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. All that England was interested in was to see that these changes should come about by peaceful evolution. This doctrine of peaceful evolution seemed dangerously near that of the higher reason. The Halifax visit did no good, and a great deal of potential harm.
 * Harold Macmillan, Winds of Change, 1914–1939 (1966), p. 531

 * Edward Halifax was a man of extraordinary charm, strong religious convictions, and long experience of public affairs... [N]either Halifax nor Chamberlain had any real experience or knowledge of foreign affairs. If Chamberlain approached them from a somewhat provincial point of view and believed almost to the end in the possibility of a "business deal" with Hitler and Ribbentrop, Halifax, as a great gentleman and aristocrat, found it quite impossible to understand the minds of such men. He could hardly bring himself to accept that statesmen who were in charge of a great country could be so absolutely devoid of any sense of truth or honour.
 * Harold Macmillan, Winds of Change, 1914–1939 (1966), p. 539

 * These men are not made of the same stuff as the Francis Drakes and the other magnificent adventurers who created the empire. These, after all, are the tired sons of a long line of rich men, and they will lose their empire.
 * Benito Mussolini, remarks to Count Ciano after meeting Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax (11 January 1939), quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge (ed.), Ciano's Diary, 1939–1943 (1947), pp. 9–10

 * Chamberlain entered 10 Downing Street determined to reshape British foreign policy in order to confront the mounting threats to European peace. In January 1938 he managed to move Sir Robert Vansittart, the fiercely anti-Hitler permanent undersecretary at the Foreign Office, into a high-sounding but innocuous post as the government’s chief diplomatic advisor. Chamberlain replaced him with the more pliant Sir Alexander Cadogan. The following month, Chamberlain’s highly strung foreign secretary, Anthony Eden, resigned in irritation at the prime minister’s personal diplomacy. His successor was Lord Halifax, a tall, lugubrious Tory peer, whose basic instinct—whether as Viceroy of India dealing with Gandhi or as foreign secretary facing the dictators— was to seek a peaceful compromise. Chamberlain would later discover that Halifax had a will of his own, but initially they formed an effective team. “I give thanks for a steady unruffled Foreign Secretary who never causes me any worry,” the prime minister wrote privately that spring. After securing a rapprochement with Italy in April 1938, Chamberlain hoped to move on to an agreement with Germany, trading territorial concessions in Europe and colonial Africa for firm restrictions on the growth of German military power. This was all part of what he and his colleagues called the “appeasement” or pacification of Europe. And after the war scare of May 1938, it was clear that the Sudeten problem had to be resolved before further progress could be made. Accordingly the British government emerged from France’s shadow as would-be mediator.
 * David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings that Changed the Twentieth Century (2007), p. 43
 * It is also clear that, left to themselves, Chamberlain’s political colleagues would eventually have undermined his summitry. To bypass Cabinet critics he moved key discussions into an inner circle, and his dramatic flight to Berchtesgaden silenced the skeptics. But his weakness there as a negotiator—conceding Sudeten secession on the spot—disconcerted many in the Cabinet. Even his inner circle warned that the next meeting must involve concessions by Hitler as well and they kept him under pressure throughout the Godesberg meeting. The revolt led by Halifax after Chamberlain returned is not surprising when one remembers that, as early as September 4, the foreign secretary had been inclined to issue a warning to Hitler. What does remain puzzling is Halifax’s failure to keep reasserting himself during the rest of the crisis. Having seen what happened when he was twice excluded from summitry, he might have been expected to claim a seat on the plane to Munich. But perhaps the euphoria in the Commons on September 28 carried all before it, catapulting Chamberlain back to the dominant position he enjoyed on the eve of Berchtesgaden.
 * David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings that Changed the Twentieth Century (2007), p. 43

 * Lord Halifax in his personal qualities more closely resembles Sir Edward Grey than any of his predecessors as Foreign Secretary. Like him he is impressive in presence and manner; universally respected, even reverenced; and he has a deep and sincere ethical and religious foundation for his character. Like him, too, he is quite obviously in politics under the impulse of a sense of duty and not of personal ambition; he would sooner live the life of a country gentleman. In India he showed an insight into the aspirations of another race and constructive qualities of a rare order; and in his relations with Mr. Gandhi he was able to find in a similarity of religious temper a bridge for the wide gulf between different civilisations and creeds... Those who hesitate about his suitability for the office of Prime Minister at a time like the present do so because they doubt whether his personal force is sufficient, whether he has a tough enough fibre in his will. The general force of his personality is less than that of Grey, and while he shares all the same personal qualities they are most of them on a somewhat lesser scale; and for a particular objective he has a less concentrated strength than Mr. Chamberlain. Partly, however, for this very reason he is less compromised by his association with Mr. Chamberlain's earlier policy and less handicapped in any attempt to secure the co-operation of the Left.
 * Arthur Salter, Security: Can We Retrieve It? (1939), pp. 262-263

 * Irwin was a friend of many years' standing whose serene career I had always admired. His striking personality, easy and distinguished manners, human and humane outlook on life, had, since his Oxford days, marked him out for great positions. Essentially a peacemaker, it was his mission as Viceroy to humanise the Government of India after Reading's chapter of rigid ceremony and cautious legalism. It was typical of him that almost his first word to his military secretary had been "we are in India to keep our tempers."
 * Viscount Templewood, Nine Troubled Years (1954), pp. 43-44

 * Irwin possessed the qualities that were needed for a reconciliator. Alone of the Viceroys who had dealings with Gandhi, he saw the springs that gave the Mahatma his astounding power.
 * Viscount Templewood, Nine Troubled Years (1954), p. 54

 * Halifax was Eden's obvious successor [as Foreign Secretary]. Universally respected, and possessing many of the qualities that had established the reputation of his ancestor, Lord Grey, and his kinsman, Sir Edward Grey, he was pre-eminent among the Conservative Ministers for character and judgment. In India he had shown his wisdom in reconciling bitter differences. Communal troubles had become less acute under his mediating influence, Gandhi had become his personal friend. Might he not have the same success in Europe that he had won in Asia? In any case, his qualities were exactly those that Chamberlain needed for his considered and concentrated programme of appeasement.
 * Viscount Templewood, Nine Troubled Years (1954), p. 280

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G. E. Moore

George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958), also known as G. E. Moore, was a philosopher at the University of Cambridge. He is perhaps best known for his work in ethics and is often regarded as one of the founders of the analytic school in philosophy.

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 * By far the most valuable things, which we know or can imagine, are certain states of consciousness, which may roughly be described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects. No one, probably, who has asked himself the question, has ever doubted that personal affection and the appreciation of what is beautiful in Art or Nature, are good in themselves; nor, if we consider strictly what things are worth having purely for their own sakes, does it appear probable that any one will think that anything else has nearly so much value as the things which are included under these two heads.
 * Principia Ethica (1903; revised edition, Cambridge University Press, 1993).

 * The study of Ethics would, no doubt, be far more simple, and its results far more "systematic," if, for instance, pain were an evil of exactly the same magnitude as pleasure is a good; but we have no reason whatever to assume that the Universe is such that ethical truths must display this kind of symmetry ....
 * Principia Ethica (1903), ch. VI.

 * I can prove now, for instance, that two human hands exist. How? By holding up my two hands, and saying, as I make a certain gesture with the right hand, "Here is one hand," and adding, as I make a certain gesture with the left, "and here is another." And if, by doing this, I have proved ipso facto the existence of external things, you will all see that I can also do it now in numbers of other ways: there is no need to multiply examples.
 * "Proof of an External World," Proceedings of the British Academy 25 (1939).

 * It is raining but I do not believe that it is.
 * One of the statements presenting what has become known as "Moore's paradox, from a famous lecture concerning logical inconsistency in 1942, as quoted in Reason in Theory and Practice (1969) by Roy Edgley, p. 71;  in which he also stated "It is not raining, but I believe that it is." These sentences are not logically contradictory, and yet it seems that no one could make a true assertion by sincerely speaking them. It is reported that Ludwig Wittgenstein, on hearing of Moore's lecture, went to Moore's house in the middle of the night to ask him to repeat it, and considered the problems presented by it Moore's greatest contributions to philosophy.
 * Variants:
 * It is raining but I don't believe that it is.
 * As quoted in Directives and Norms (1968) by Alf Ross, Brian Loar, p. 27.
 * It is raining but I don't believe that it is raining.
 * As quoted in Foundations of Illocutionary Logic(1985) by John R. Searle and Daniel Vanderveken, p. 19.

Quotes about Moore

 * G. E. Moore (1942) noted it is pragmatically incoherent to assert, 'It is raining but I don't believe that it is'.
 * The Oxford Companion to Consciousness (2009) edited by Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, by Patrick Wilken, p. 389.

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas

How the Grinch Stole Christmas may refer to either of the following, based on the children's book by Dr. Seuss:

 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special), the 1966 animated TV special, with the voice of Boris Karloff.
 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film), the 2000 live-action film, starring Jim Carrey
 * The Grinch (film), the 2018 CGI-animated film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch

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Gregg Toland (May 29, 1904 – September 26, 1948) American cinematographer, noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus in films such as Wuthering Heights, The Long Voyage Home and Citizen Kane.

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 * Of all the people who make up a movie production unit, the cameraman is the only one who can call himself a free soul.
 * "The Motion Picture Cameraman", Theatre Arts Magazine, September, 1941.
 * The star system has us making pictures with personalities rather than stories, sacrificing everything in order to keep some old bags playing young women.
 * From an essay Toland wrote for International Photographer arguing that cinematographers needed to be uncompromising.
 * Hilton Als (2006). "The Cameraman". The New Yorker (June 19): 46–51

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User talk:Godfather89

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January 28

January 28 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2005
 * Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads. ~ Lao Zi ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~ Colette (born 28 January 1873)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself. ~ José Martí
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * For the sincere friend Who gives me his frank hand. And for the cruel man who pulls out of me the heart with which I live, I grow neither nettles nor thorns: I grow a white rose. ~ José Martí ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. ~ Colette (born 28 January 1873)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate. ~ José Martí
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. ~ Colette
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet. ~ Colette
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to the Chinese New Year — of the Fire Rooster.

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 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
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. ~ José Martí (born January 28, 1853)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 12:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 19:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 27 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ~ Colette
 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:23, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ~ Colette
 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:23, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

We only do well the things we like doing. ~ Colette
 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:23, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. ~ Colette
 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:23, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. ~ Colette
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:01, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
 * (25 January 2016)

title: January 28


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February 28

February 28 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~ Michel de Montaigne (born 28 February 1533)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away. ~ Linus Pauling (born 28 February 1901)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are feted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour. ~ Stephen Spender ~ (born 28 February 1909)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr. (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old. ~ Michel de Montaigne
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Virtue refuses facility for her companion … the easy, gentle, and sloping path that guides the footsteps of a good natural disposition is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. ~ Michel de Montaigne
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences — and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on — whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made… But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe — and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm. ~ Linus Pauling
 * "Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences — and we cannot predict what they will be" proposed by Zarbon, extension proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical — always think for yourself. ~ Linus Pauling
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by DanielTom, in relation to Nimoy's recent death.

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ~ Michel de Montaigne
 * 3 because it is easy to be controlled by others. Zarbon 05:36, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:46, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 bystander (talk) 21:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? ~ Michel de Montaigne
 * 3 because power is in the eye of the beholder. And to the cat, the master might be under its control. This is actually a rather interesting view. Zarbon 05:36, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:46, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid. ~ Michel de Montaigne
 * 3 because madness is preferable to stupidity. At least to me it is. Zarbon 05:36, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:46, 27 February 2009 (UTC) a good statement, but the interpretation is easily skewed in several different ways, not all of them profound; though I lean slightly toward a 3, despite these objections.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 21:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

And now you know — the rest of the story. ~ Paul Harvey (born 4 September 1918) (died 28 February 2009)
 * 2 Kalki 23:43, 1 March 2009 (UTC) but might rank this a 3 or even a 4 eventually.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 21:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC) Appropriate for the day of his death.

What America has succeeded in creating is not an economy impervious to shocks, but merely one which enables their consequences to be postponed to a later date. ~ Peter Schiff

 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 13:04, 21 February 2010 (UTC) I would rank this 2 on the 23 March page, which is Schiff's birthday, but there seems to be no clear relation to this date.

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February 29

February 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Just because it's old doesn't mean you have to read it. ~ "Jolene Sugarbaker, the Trailer Park Queen" as portrayed by Jayson Saffer.
 * selected by IP 172.152.110.22

 * 2008
 * God bless the King! (I mean our faith's defender!) God bless! (No harm in blessing) the Pretender. But who Pretender is, and who is King,  God bless us all! That's quite another thing! ~ John Byrom ~ (born 29 February 1692)
 * proposed and selected by Kalki

 * 2012
 * You are now at a crossroads. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it. ~ Anthony Robbins
 * proposed and selected by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed and selected by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed and selected by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2028 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret. ~ Anthony Robbins
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 21:59, 16 February 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 0 JessRek6 (talk) 15:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC) Quote from same source Robbins used previously on this date (2012, 2020); suggestions from the same editor used previously on this date (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. ~ Anthony Robbins
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 21:59, 16 February 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 0 JessRek6 (talk) 15:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC) Quote from same source Robbins used previously on this date (2012, 2020); suggestions from the same editor used previously on this date (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
 * Dinah Shore (born 29 February 1916), As quoted in The Book of Quotes (1979) by Barbara Rowes
 * 3 bystander (talk) 21:59, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 JessRek6 (talk) 15:50, 28 February 2020 (UTC) Birthday; source Dinah Shore not previously used on this date; suggestion from editor not previously used on this date.
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 28 February 2020 (UTC), but with a potential for 2 or higher. This presently is the only quote on this author's page, and I would prefer that the author's page be developed more, before using it.

''Strange! that such high dispute should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.'' ~ John Byrom ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC) with a very lean toward 4.
 * 0 JessRek6 (talk) 15:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC) Quote from same source Byron used previously on this date (2008); suggestions from the same editor used previously on this date (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)

Endless Perfections after all conspire, And to adore excite and to admire; But to plain Minds the Plainest Pow'r Above Is Native Goodness to attract our Love; Centre of all Its various Pow'r and Skill Is One Divine, Immutable Good Will. ~ John Byrom ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 0 JessRek6 (talk) 15:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC) Quote from same source Byron used previously on this date (2008); suggestions from the same editor used previously on this date (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)

"The Sabbath was made for Man; not Man for the Sabbath."
 * — St. Mark, ii. 27.
 * From this true Saying one may learn to draw The real Nature of all outward Law. In ev'ry Instance, rightly understood, Its Ground and Reason is the human Good; By all its Changes, since the World began, Man was not made for Law, but Law for Man. ~ John Byrom ~

 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 0 JessRek6 (talk) 15:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC) Quote from same source Byron used previously on this date (2008); suggestions from the same editor used previously on this date (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)

In the Praise ever due to the Gospel of Grace Its Universality holds the first Place. ~ John Byrom ~
 * This was used as a portion of the QOTD in 2016. 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 0 JessRek6 (talk) 15:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC) Quote from same source Byron used previously on this date (2008); suggestions from the same editor used previously on this date (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)

Women have everything to do with bringing culture into everyday life, with the expression of it, with the helping and influencing of a nation, not only because they are mothers but also because they themselves are an example as individuals. The modern world needs a new force for the revitalizing of its ideals. India’s art has always been unconscious, unconscious of its own beauty, unconscious of others’ admiration, unconscious of the physical though expressed in Form. India is now beginning to be conscious and we do not know how to express ourselves consciously. A great dancer’s art must depend first on the life he or she expresses, secondly upon the beauty of technique and lastly only, upon its arrangement, costume, and presentation....Though form, technique and skill are essential, great Art must have the impetus of genius, and inspiration. Then there is permanency. - Rukmini Devi Arundale
 * 3--Nvvchar (talk) 16:10, 29 January 2015 (UTC) On Rukmini Devi Arundale's birth anniversary on 29 February
 * 4 JessRek6 (talk) 15:50, 28 February 2020 (UTC) Birthday; source Rukmini Devi Arundale not previously used on this date; suggestion from editor not previously used on this date.
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

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March 28

March 28 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows. ~ Epictetus
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ~ James Callaghan (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time. ~ Buck Owens (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God... ~ Teresa of Ávila
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Just as we cannot stop the movement of the heavens, revolving as they do with such speed, so we cannot restrain our thought. And then we send all the faculties of the soul after it, thinking we are lost, and have misused the time that we are spending in the presence of God. Yet the soul may perhaps be wholly united with Him in the Mansions very near His presence, while thought remains in the outskirts of the castle, suffering the assaults of a thousand wild and venomous creatures and from this suffering winning merit. So this must not upset us, and we must not abandon the struggle, as the devil tries to make us do. Most of these trials and times of unrest come from the fact that we do not understand ourselves. ~ Teresa of Ávila
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * I do not understand those terrors which make us cry out, Satan, Satan! when we may say, God, God! and make Satan tremble. Do we not know that he cannot stir without the permission of God? … I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors. ~ Teresa of Ávila
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure that doesnt deter me in the least. ~ Grace Hartigan
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * I saw an angel close by me, on my left side, in bodily form. This I am not accustomed to see, unless very rarely. Though I have visions of angels frequently, yet I see them only by an intellectual vision, such as I have spoken of before. It was our Lord's will that in this vision I should see the angel in this wise. He was not large, but small of stature, and most beautiful — his face burning, as if he were one of the highest angels, who seem to be all of fire: they must be those whom we call cherubim. ~ Teresa of Ávila
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction. ~ J. L. Austin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by Zarbon
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 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 Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Whoever embarks with a woman embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats. ~ Arsène Houssaye
 * 2 Zarbon 21:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital. ~ Arsène Houssaye
 * 2 Zarbon 21:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Ordinary language is not the last word: in principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon and superseded. Only remember, it is the first word. ~ J. L. Austin
 * 3 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 22:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

 * 0 as of 2017·03·27 — I cannot find a clearly reliable source for this attribution. 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC) I had intended to use this for QOTD in 2017, but having intermittently searched for variants over the years, and extensively seeking them today, within the last hour, I find no earlier instances than an attribution by Truman Capote in 1970. If a genuine and earlier source is eventually found (or it is ever reliably evidenced to have originated with him), I prefer his variant to the one originally posted: There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:11, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

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