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Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: בנימין זאב הֶרְצְל Binyamin Ze'ev Hertsl); 2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904), was the founder and leader of the World Zionist Organization which promoted the establishment of a Jewish state. In his early life, he was an assimilated Jewish Austro-Hungarian journalist, popular playwright, political activist, and writer. Though he died long before its establishment, he is generally considered the father of the State of Israel, formed in 1948. Herzl is specifically mentioned in the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

Quotes

 * It would be an excellent idea to call in respectable, accredited anti-Semites as liquidators of property. To the people they would vouch for the fact that we do not wish to bring about the impoverishment of the countries that we leave. At first they must not be given large fees for this; otherwise we shall spoil our instruments and make them despicable as “stooges of the Jews.” Later their fees will increase, and in the end we shall have only Gentile officials in the countries from which we have emigrated. The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies. We want to emigrate as respected people.
 * Herzl Diary Entry (12 June 1895), The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, Vol.1, 1960, Edited by Raphael Patai, Translated by Harry Zohn, p. 83-84

 * Were I to sum up the Basel Congress in a word — which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly — it would be this: At Basel, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years, certainly in fifty, everyone will know it.
 * Herzl Diary entry (3 September 1897), a few days after the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, as quoted in 'Nonstate Nations in International Politics: Comparative System Analyses'' (1977) by Judy S. Bertelsen, p. 37; 50 years after writing this in his diary, the state of Israel was established.

 * If you will, it is no legend...
 * Prefix to Altneuland [The Old New Land], (1902)
 * Originally in German: Wenn ihr wollt, ist es kein Märchen... which was intended to have the double meaning of a strong will shall eventually be realized, and as part of a paragraph ending as a postfix to the book, that this book perhaps will be seen as a true story, but even if not...
 * Note: The Israeli rightist movement "Im Tirzu" (Literally: 'If you will') is named after this quote.

 * Let me tell you that my friend and I do not discriminate between humans. We do not ask what race or what religion he is from. He has to be a human being. That is all that's important for us.
 * Altneuland (1902)

 * ... but if you will, it may very well be only a legend dreamed up by myself, and will always be so. I had in mind to write a story with a point. There will be those who say, more story than point. After three years we must part, my beloved book. Now you go on your trail of tears. You will have to go through a maze of antagonism and misunderstanding, like through a dark forest. But if you are lucky and meet good people, please send them your father's blessings. He believes that dreams too can be a way to fill the days that man must spend on the face of the earth. The dream is not that far from action as most tend to think. All people's actions were once a dream and all peoples actions will someday be a dream.
 * Postfix to Altneuland (1902)
 * Variant translation:
 * Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

Der Judenstaat [The Jewish State] (1896)

 * Unless otherwise noted quotes below are primarily from the American Zionist Emergency Council edition (1946), based on a 1943 revised translation by the Scopus Publishing Company, itself based on the first English-language edition, A Jewish State (1896), translated by Sylvie d'Avigdor

'''We are a people — one people. We have honestly endeavored everywhere to merge ourselves in the social life of surrounding communities and to preserve the faith of our fathers. We are not permitted to do so.''' In vain are we loyal patriots, our loyalty in some places running to extremes; in vain do we make the same sacrifices of life and property as our fellow-citizens; in vain do we strive to increase the fame of our native land in science and art, or her wealth by trade and commerce. In countries where we have lived for centuries we are still cried down as strangers, and often by those whose ancestors were not yet domiciled in the land where Jews had already had experience of suffering. The majority may decide which are the strangers; for this, as indeed every point which arises in the relations between nations, is a question of might. I do not here surrender any portion of our prescriptive right, when I make this statement merely in my own name as an individual. In the world as it now is and for an indefinite period will probably remain, might precedes right. It is useless, therefore, for us to be loyal patriots, as were the Huguenots who were forced to emigrate. If we could only be left in peace.... But I think we shall not be left in peace.
 * I believe that I understand Anti-Semitism, which is really a highly complex movement. I consider it from a Jewish standpoint, yet without fear or hatred. I believe that I can see what elements there are in it of vulgar sport, of common trade jealousy, of inherited prejudice, of religious intolerance, and also of pretended self-defence. I think the Jewish question is no more a social than a religious one, notwithstanding that it sometimes takes these and other forms. It is a national question, which can only be solved by making it a political world-question to be discussed and settled by the civilized nations of the world in council.
 * I : Introduction

 * Oppression and persecution cannot exterminate us. No nation on earth has survived such struggles and sufferings as we have gone through. Jew-baiting has merely stripped off our weaklings; the strong among us were invariably true to their race when persecution broke out against them. This attitude was most clearly apparent in the period immediately following the emancipation of the Jews. Those Jews who were advanced intellectually and materially entirely lost the feeling of belonging to their race. Wherever our political well-being has lasted for any length of time, we have assimilated with our surroundings. I think this is not discreditable. Hence, the statesman who would wish to see a Jewish strain in his nation would have to provide for the duration of our political well-being; and even a Bismarck could not do that.
 * I : Introduction

 * Anti-Semitism increases day by day and hour by hour among the nations; indeed, it is bound to increase, because the causes of its growth continue to exist and cannot be removed. Its remote cause is our loss of the power of assimilation during the Middle Ages; its immediate cause is our excessive production of mediocre intellects, who cannot find an outlet downwards or upwards — that is to say, no wholesome outlet in either direction. When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; and at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.
 * II : The Jewish Question
 * Variant translation:
 * When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, but when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

 * A scheme such as mine is gravely imperiled if it is opposed by "practical" people. Now "practical" people are as a rule nothing more than men sunk into the groove of daily routine, unable to emerge from a narrow circle of antiquated ideas. At the same time, their adverse opinion carries great weight, and can do considerable harm to a new project, at any rate until this new thing is sufficiently strong to throw the "practical" people and their mouldy notions to the winds.
 * II : The Jewish Question
 * Variant translation:
 * A plan like the one being presented here is fundamentally endangered if the "realists" come out against it. Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. But their adverse opinion does carry some weight and can do great harm to a new project — at least until the innovation is strong enough to push the "realists" and their moldy notions aside.
 * As quoted in The Rise of Israel: From precursors of Zionism to Herzl (1987), by Isaiah Friedman

To the first class of objections belongs the remark that the Jews are not the only people in the world who are in a condition of distress. Here I would reply that we may as well begin by removing a little of this misery, even if it should at first be no more than our own. It might further be said that we ought not to create new distinctions between people; we ought not to raise fresh barriers, we should rather make the old disappear. But men who think in this way are amiable visionaries; and the idea of a native land will still flourish when the dust of their bones will have vanished tracelessly in the winds. Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.
 * I have tried to meet certain objections; but I know that many more will be made, based on high grounds and low.
 * VI : Conclusion
 * Variant translation:
 * Some may say we ought not to bring up new differences between people; we ought not to raise new borders, we should rather make the old ones disappear. But men who think in this way are endearing dreamers; and the idea of a native land will still flourish when the dust of their bones will have vanished tracelessly in the winds.

But we must first bring enlightenment to men's minds. The idea must make its way into the most distant, miserable holes where our people dwell. They will awaken from gloomy brooding, for into their lives will come a new significance. Every man need think only of himself, and the movement will assume vast proportions. And what glory awaits those who fight unselfishly for the cause! Therefore I believe that a wondrous generation of Jews will spring into existence. The Maccabeans will rise again. Let me repeat once more my opening words: The Jews who wish for a State will have it. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes. The world will be freed by our liberty, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there to accomplish for our own welfare, will react powerfully and beneficially for the good of humanity.
 * Prayers will be offered up for the success of our work in temples and in churches also; for it will bring relief from an old burden, which all have suffered.
 * VI : Conclusion

Quotes about Herzl

 * Speaking of concentration, Dr. Herzl has a clear insight into the value of that. Have you heard of his plan? He wishes to gather the Jews of the world together in Palestine, with a government of their own — under the suzerainty of the Sultan, I suppose. At the Convention of Berne, last year, there were delegates from everywhere, and the proposal was received with decided favor. I am not the Sultan, and I am not objecting; but if that concentration of the cunningest brains in the world were going to be made in a free country (bar Scotland), I think it would be politic to stop it. It will not be well to let the race find out its strength. If the horses knew theirs, we should not ride any more.
 * Mark Twain, "Concerning the Jews" in Harper's Magazine (September 1897)

 * ...In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore Herzl, the First Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country...
 * Israeli Declaration of Independence (5 May 1948)
 * I have often wondered how different Zionism might have been if Herzl had not been a Viennese journalist but a shopkeeper in a Damascus bazaar. Would Zionism have realized that Palestine was a part of a big area inhabited by Arabs?  Might some solution have been found at the very beginning to the problem of co-existence with the people who considered Palestine their own homeland ?  But these are, of course idle thoughts.  Herzl could not have been anything but a European Jew, because his whole idea was a response to a specific challenge posed by European conditions.
 * Uri Avnery, Israel without Zionism (1971) – page 50

 * Herzl regarded Zionism's triumph as inevitable, not only because life in Europe was ever more untenable for Jews, but also because it was in Europe's interests to rid the Jews and relieved of anti-Semitism: The European political establishment would eventually be persuaded to promote Zionism. Herzl recognized that anti-Semitism would be harnessed to his own Zionist purposes.
 * Benny Morris, in Righteous Victims : A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–1999 (1999), p. 21, as cited in Islam and the West'' (2015) by Kerry Bolton

 * Herzl had failed to have his son Hans circumcised, and the Zionist leadership, following Herzl’s death, saw to it that the oversight be remedied when the boy was 15 years old.
 * "Theodor (Binyamin Ze’ev) Herzl (1860 - 1904)" in Virtual Jewish Library

 * Nothing better reflects the new character of this secularism than the two theoreticians of Zionism and Bundist socialism, Theodore Herzl and Vladimir Medem. Both came from assimilated backgrounds...and neither was fluent in the languages which their movements promoted. Yet both came to advocate Jewish autonomy and a radical concept of Jewish secularism which diverged completely from the eighteenth century maskilim's vision and intent: the possibility of being a committed, unassimilated Jew without being observant. And this concept had great power.
 * Irena Klepfisz "Khaloymes/Dreams in Progress: Culture, Politics, and Jewish Identity" (1990)

 * Herzl never said "In Bazel I established the Jewish state" — he wrote it in his diary... He believed in women's rights, in equality and religious tolerance... that being "the chosen people" is a moral responsibility and not a right... and this is one case where one can say with no hesitation that the leader had made the history. If not for Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl we wouldn't be standing here today...
 * Yair Lapid, Israeli minister of finance, Herzl Day 2016, Israeli Parliament

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Hafizud Dean Khan is a Fijian businessman and politician. He was appointed to the Senate in July 2005.

Maiden speech to the Senate, 24 August 2005 (excerpts)

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John Buchan

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and politician who was Governor-General of Canada from 1935 to 1940.

Quotes

 * The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
 * "The Wise Years", The Moon Endureth (1912)

 * The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
 * Montrose and Leadership (1930), p 24; republished in Men and Deeds (1977)

 * We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
 * Address to the people of Canada on the coronation of George VI (12 May 1937)

A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)

 * Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906

 * The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.
 * Ch. I, p. 22

 * Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.
 * Ch. I, p. 23

 * The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.
 * Ch. II, p. 43

 * In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.
 * Ch. III, p. 69

 * It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste.
 * Ch. III, p. 83

 * Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.
 * Ch. V, p. 145.
 * The scene is a society ball in London.

 * It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks.
 * Ch. X, p. 268

 * It was a very young man's confession of faith, and yet there was the glimmering of a truth at the back of it. It was my instinctive protest against the undue simplification of life. We are all a strange compound, and we shall never reach our full stature by starving certain parts of our nature of their due.
 * Ch. X, p. 272

 * Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
 * Ch. XI, pp. 313–4

 * What do we mean by spiritual development? Surely, the broadening and deepening of the mind till it regards the world in its true perspective, and the strengthening of the character so that the will is a tempered and unerring weapon in the charge of a man's soul. And this end is to be achieved only by the exercise of the mind upon the largest possible manifold of experience, and by the conflict of character with the alien forces of the world.
 * Ch. XII, pp. 336–7

Prester John (1910)

 * Time, they say, must the best of us capture, And travel and battle and gems and gold No more can kindle the ancient rapture, For even the youngest of hearts grows old.
 * Dedication

 * I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours.
 * First lines

 * Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.
 * Ch. IX

 * The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers.
 * Ch. IX

 * Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
 * Ch. X

 * I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.
 * Ch. X

 * It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.
 * Ch. X

 * Last night I had looked into the heart of darkness, and the sight had terrified me. What part should I play in the great purification? Most likely that of the Biblical scapegoat.
 * Ch. XII

Space (1912)

 * A story in The Moon Endureth

 * Supposing you knew — not by sight or by instinct, but by sheer intellectual knowledge, as I know the truth of a mathematical proposition — that what we call empty space was full, crammed. Not with lumps of what we call matter like hills and houses, but with things as real — as real to the mind.

 * How if Space is really full of things we cannot see and as yet do not know? How if all animals and some savages have a cell in their brain or a nerve which responds to the invisible world? How if all Space be full of these landmarks, not material in our sense, but quite real? A dog barks at nothing, a wild beast makes an aimless circuit. Why? Perhaps because Space is made up of corridors and alleys, ways to travel and things to shun? For all we know, to a greater intelligence than ours the top of Mont Blanc may be as crowded as Piccadilly Circus.

 * I am bound to say that it took me a long time to understand what he meant. He began by saying that everybody thought of Space as an 'empty homogeneous medium.' 'Never mind at present what the ultimate constituents of that medium are. We take it as a finished product, and we think of it as mere extension, something without any quality at all. That is the view of civilised man. You will find all the philosophers taking it for granted. Yes, but every living thing does not take that view.

 * I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.

 * I mused upon the ironic fate which had compelled a mathematical genius to make his sole confidant of a philistine lawyer, and induced that lawyer to repeat it confusedly to an ignoramus at twilight on a Scotch hill.

 * This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world.

 * I gathered from Hollond that he was always conscious of corridors and halls and alleys in Space, shifting, but shifting according to inexorable laws. I never could get quite clear as to what this consciousness was like. When I asked he used to look puzzled and worried and helpless.

 * Remember his mind and no other part of him lived in his new world. He said it gave him an odd sense of detachment to sit in a room among people, and to know that nothing there but himself had any relation at all to the infinite strange world of Space that flowed around them. He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.

 * He never went mad in your sense. My dear fellow, you're very much wrong if you think there was anything pathological about him — then. The man was brilliantly sane. His mind was as keen as a keen sword. I couldn't understand him, but I could judge of his sanity right enough.

 * 'There's a queer performance going on in the other world,' he said. 'It's unbelievable. I never dreamed of such a thing. I — I don't quite know how to put it, and I don't know how to explain it, but — but I am becoming aware that there are other beings — other minds — moving in Space besides mine.'

 * Of course he could only describe his impressions very lamely, for they were purely of the mind, and he had no material peg to hang them on, so that I could realise them. But the gist of it was that he had been gradually becoming conscious of what he called 'Presences' in his world. They had no effect on Space — did not leave footprints in its corridors, for instance — but they affected his mind. There was some mysterious contact established between him and them. I asked him if the affection was unpleasant and he said 'No, not exactly.' But I could see a hint of fear in his eyes.

 * I dropped all my own views of sense and nonsense. I told him that, taking all that he had told me as fact, the Presences might be either ordinary minds traversing Space in sleep; or minds such as his which had independently captured the sense of Space's quality; or, finally, the spirits of just men made perfect, behaving as psychical researchers think they do. It was a ridiculous task to set a prosaic man, and I wasn't quite serious.

 * 'Think,' I told him, 'what may be waiting for you. You may discover the meaning of Spirit. You may open up a new world, as rich as the old one, but imperishable. You may prove to mankind their immortality and deliver them for ever from the fear of death. Why, man, you are picking at the lock of all the world's mysteries.'

 * Leithen's story had bored and puzzled me at the start, but now it had somehow gripped my fancy. Space a domain of endless corridors and Presences moving in them! The world was not quite the same as an hour ago. It was the hour, as the French say, "between dog and wolf," when the mind is disposed to marvels.

 * Oh, I agree he went mad in the end. It is the only explanation. Something must have snapped in that fine brain, and he saw the little bit more which we call madness. Thank God, you and I are prosaic fellows...

Salute to Adventurers (1915)

 * 'I'm in the Lord's hands,' he said humbly. 'I'm but a penny whistle for His breath to blow on.' This he said with such solemnity that the meaning of a fanatic was suddenly revealed to me. One or two distorted notions, a wild imagination, and fierce passions, and there you have the ingredients ready.
 * Ch. 3 "The Canongate Tollbooth"

 * They were happy years, the four I spent in Glasgow, for I was young and ardent, and had not yet suffered the grave miscarriage of hope which is our human lot.
 * Ch. 4 "Of a Stairhead and a Sea-Captain"

 * I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.
 * Ch. 6 "Tells of My Education"

 * There come moments to every man when he is thankful to be alive, and every breath drawn is a delight; so at that hour I praised my Maker for His good earth, and for sparing me to rejoice in it.
 * Ch. 16 "The Ford of the Rapidan"

 * There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.
 * Ch. 24 "I Suffer the Heathen's Rage"

 * 'What does a woman desire?' she asked, speaking as if to herself, and her voice was soft as she gazed over the valley. 'Men think it is a handsome face or a brisk air or a smooth tongue. And some will have it that it is a deep purse or a high station. But I think it is the honest heart that goes all the way with a woman's love. We are not so blind as to believe that the glitter is the gold. We love romance, but we seek it in its true home.'
 * Ch. 28 "How Three Souls Found Their Heritage"

The Power-House (1916)

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 * I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London. And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know.
 * Preface

 * I must get off for a bit or I'll bonnet Joggleberry or get up and propose a national monument to Guy Fawkes or something silly.
 * Ch. 1 "Beginning of the Wild-Goose Chase"

 * He was a bad acquaintance for a placid, sedentary soul like me, for though he could work like a Trojan when the fit took him, he was never at the same job very long. In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses for the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get into the semi-final of the racquets championship. I waited daily to see him start a new religion.
 * Ch. 1 "Beginning of the Wild-Goose Chase"

 * You don't know old Charles as I know him. He's got into a queer set, and there's no knowing what mischief he's up to. He's perfectly capable of starting a revolution in Armenia or somewhere merely to see how it feels like to be a revolutionary. That's the damned thing about the artistic temperament.
 * Ch. 1 "Beginning of the Wild-Goose Chase"

 * To be watchful, I decided, was my business. And I could not get rid of the feeling that I might soon have cause for all my vigilance.
 * Ch. 1 "Beginning of the Wild-Goose Chase"

 * Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
 * Ch. 2 "I First Hear Of Mr Andrew Lumley"

 * You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * Civilisation is a conspiracy. What value would your police be if every criminal could find a sanctuary across the Channel, or your law courts, if no other tribunal recognised their decisions? Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. And it will succeed till the day comes when there is another compact to strip them bare.
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * When all is said, we are ruled by the amateurs and the second-rate. The methods of our departments would bring any private firm to bankruptcy. The methods of Parliament — pardon me — would disgrace any board of directors. Our rulers pretend to buy expert knowledge, but they never pay the price for it that a business man would pay, and if they get it they have not the courage to use it. Where is the inducement for a man of genius to sell his brains to our insipid governors? And yet knowledge is the only power — now as ever. A little mechanical device will wreck your navies. A new chemical combination will upset every rule of war. It is the same with our commerce. One or two minute changes might sink Britain to the level of Ecuador, or give China the key of the world's wealth. And yet we never dream that these things are possible. We think our castles of sand are the ramparts of the universe.
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * I read now and then in the papers that some eminent scientist had made a great discovery. He reads a paper before some Academy of Science, and there are leading articles on it, and his photograph adorns the magazines. That kind of man is not the danger. He is a bit of the machine, a party to the compact. It is the men who stand outside it that are to be reckoned with, the artists in discovery who will never use their knowledge till they can use it with full effect.
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * I cannot pry into motives. I only know of the existence of great extra-social intelligences. Let us say that they distrust the machine. They may be idealists and desire to make a new world, or they may simply be artists, loving for its own sake the pursuit of truth. If I were to hazard a guess, I should say that it took both types to bring about results, for the second find the knowledge and the first the will to use it.
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * Civilisation knows how to use such powers as it has, while the immense potentiality of the unlicensed is dissipated in vapour. Civilisation wins because it is a world-wide league; its enemies fail because they are parochial. But supposing … supposing anarchy learned from civilisation and became international. Oh, I don't mean the bands of advertising donkeys who call themselves International Unions of Workers and suchlike rubbish. I mean if the real brain-stuff of the world were internationalised. Suppose that the links in the cordon of civilisation were neutralised by other links in a far more potent chain. The earth is seething with incoherent power and unorganised intelligence.
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * "It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue of idealists. And you do not want a Napoleon. All that is needed is direction, which could be given by men of far lower gifts than a Bonaparte. In a word, you want a Power-House, and then the age of miracles will begin."
 * Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

 * I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
 * Ch. 4 "I Follow The Trail Of The Super-Butler"

 * I am not courageous. To be brave means that you have conquered fear, but I have never had any fear to conquer. Believe me, Mr Leithen, I am quite impervious to threats. You come to me to-night and hold a pistol to my head. You offer me two alternatives, both of which mean failure. But how do you know that I regard them as failure? I have had what they call a good run for my money. No man since Napoleon has tasted such power. I may be willing to end it. Age creeps on and power may grow burdensome. I have always sat loose from common ambitions and common affections. For all you know I may regard you as a benefactor.
 * Ch. 8 "The Power-House"

 * I felt myself in the presence of something enormously big, as if a small barbarian was desecrating the colossal Zeus of Pheidias with a coal hammer. But I also felt it inhuman, and I hated it, and I clung to that hatred. "You fear nothing and you believe nothing," I said. "Man, you should never have been allowed to live."
 * Ch. 8 "The Power-House"

 * I am a sceptic about most things... but, believe me, I have my own worship. I venerate the intellect of man. I believe in its undreamed-of possibilities, when it grows free like an oak in the forest and is not dwarfed in a flower-pot. From that allegiance I have never wavered. That is the God I have never forsworn.
 * Ch. 8 "The Power-House"

The Path of the King (1921)

 * We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.
 * Prologue

 * The things we call aristocracies and reigning houses are the last places to look for masterful men. They began strongly, but they have been too long in possession. They have been cosseted and comforted and the devil has gone out of their blood. Don't imagine that I undervalue descent. It is not for nothing that a great man leaves posterity. But who is more likely to inherit the fire — the elder son with his flesh-pots or the younger son with his fortune to find?
 * Prologue

 * We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.
 * Prologue

 * The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world. God never allows waste. And we fools rub our eyes and wonder, when we see genius come out of the gutter. It didn't begin there. We tell ourselves that Shakespeare was the son of a woolpedlar, and Napoleon of a farmer, and Luther of a peasant, and we hold up our hands at the marvel. But who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry!
 * Prologue

 * Generations follow, oblivious of the high beginnings, but there is that in the stock which is fated to endure. The sons and daughters blunder and sin and perish, but the race goes on, for there is a fierce stuff of life in it. It sinks and rises again and blossoms at haphazard into virtue or vice, since the ordinary moral laws do not concern its mission. Some rags of greatness always cling to it, the dumb faith that sometime and somehow that blood drawn from kings it never knew will be royal again. Though nature is wasteful of material things, there is no waste of spirit. And then after long years there comes, unheralded and unlooked-for, the day of the Appointed Time...
 * Prologue

 * Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God—she has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. She is the channel of the eternal purpose of Heaven.
 * Ch. V "The Maid"

 * Every wife is like Mary the Blessed and may bear a saviour of mankind. The road is long, but the ways of Heaven are sure.
 * Ch. V "The Maid"

 * I think a man cannot strive wholeheartedly with an enemy unless he have much in common with him, and as the strife goes on he gets liker.
 * Ch. VIII "The Hidden City"

 * I have known fellows to whom the earth was so full of little pleasures that after the worst clouts they rose like larks from a furrow. A wise philosophy—but I had none of it. I always saw the little pageant of man's life like a child's peep-show beside the dark wastes of eternity.
 * Ch. VIII "The Hidden City"

 * The promise had not failed her. . . . She had won everything from life, for she had given the world a master. Words seemed to speak themselves in her ear. . . . "Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind."
 * Ch. XIII "The Last Stage"

 * Truth's like a dollar-piece, it's got two sides, and both are wanted to make it good currency.
 * Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", I

 * The law and the constitution are like a child's pants. They've got to be made wider and longer as the child grows so as to fit him. If they're kept too tight, he'll burst them; and if you're in a hurry and make them too big all at once, they'll trip him up.
 * Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", I

 * If the Lord sends us war, we have got to face it like men, but God forbid we should manufacture war, and use it as an escape from our domestic difficulties. You can't expect a blessing on that.
 * Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", II

 * Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
 * Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", II

 * They want to hurry things quicker than the Almighty means them to go. I don't altogether blame them either, for I'm mortally impatient myself. But it s no good thinking that saying a thing should be so will make it so. We're not the Creator of this universe. You've got to judge results according to your instruments.
 * Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", III

Huntingtower (1922)

 * The clean delicate lines of her figure, the exquisite pure colouring of hair and skin, the charming young arrogance of the eyes — this was beauty, he reflected, a miracle, a revelation. Her virginal fineness and her dress, which was the tint of pale fire, gave her the air of a creature of ice and flame.
 * Prologue

 * Her voice had a thrill in it like music, frosty music.
 * Prologue

 * They[Australians]'ve all kinds of accents, but you can never mistake their voice. It's got the sun in it. Canadians have got grinding ice in theirs, and Virginians have got butter. So have the Irish. In Britain there are no voices, only speaking-tubes.
 * Ch. 2

 * What had become of his dream of idylls, his gentle bookish romance? Vanished before a reality which smacked horribly of crude melodrama and possibly of sordid crime. His gorge rose at the picture, but a thought troubled him. Perhaps all romance in its hour of happening was rough and ugly like this, and only shone rosy in the retrospect. Was he being false to his deepest faith?
 * Ch. 4

 * It was as if he were watching a tall stranger with a wand pointing to the embarrassed phantom that was himself, and ruthlessly exposing its frailties! And yet that pitiless showman was himself too — himself as he wanted to be, cheerful, brave, resourceful, indomitable.
 * Ch. 6

 * And yet — and yet! He had done the right thing, though the Lord alone knew how it would end. He began to pluck courage from his very melancholy, and hope from his reflexions on the transitoriness of life. He was austerely following Romance as he conceived it, and if that capricious lady had taken one dream from him she might yet reward him with a better.
 * Ch. 6

 * Oh, it sounds ridiculous, I know, in Britain in the twentieth century, but I learned in the war that civilization anywhere is a very thin crust.
 * Ch. 9

 * He looked up startled, and saw in her face that which gave him a view into a strange new world. He had thought that women blushed when they talked of love, but her eyes were as grave and candid as a boy's. Here was one who had gone through waters so deep that she had lost the foibles of sex. Love to her was only a word of ill omen, a threat on the lips of brutes, an extra battalion of peril in an army of perplexities.
 * Ch. 10

Midwinter (1923)

 * I am nothing — a will-o'-the-wisp at your service — a clod of vivified dust whom its progenitors christened Amos Midwinter. I have no possession but my name, and no calling but that of philosopher. Naked I came from the earth, and naked I will return to it.
 * Ch. I

 * [L]oyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
 * Ch. I

 * Statesmanship […] must consider first the fortunes of the common people. No statesman has a right to risk these fortunes unless he be reasonably assured of success.
 * Ch. II

 * Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.
 * Ch. X

 * What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains.
 * Ch. X

 * Too young for wife, too old for child, but the ripe age for comrade — and such a comrade, for there was a boy's gallantry in her eyes and something of a child's confident fearlessness.
 * Ch. XVII

 * Now it was all behind him — but by God, he did not, he would not regret it. He had taken the only way, and if it had pleased Fate to sport cruelly with him, that was no fault of his. He had sacrificed one loyalty to a more urgent, and with the thought bitterness went out of his soul.[…] Tragedy had ensued, but the endeavour had been honest. He saw the ironic pattern of life spread out beneath him, as a man views a campaign from a mountain, and he came near to laughter — laughter with an undertone of tears.
 * Ch. XVIII

Witch Wood (1927)

 * Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.
 * Ch. III "Guests in Calidon Tower"

 * The profession of religion was not the same thing as godliness, and he was coming to doubt whether the insistence upon minute conformities of outward conduct and the hair-splitting doctrines were not devices of Satan to entangle souls.
 * Ch. VIII "The Second Blast"

 * And at times I'm tempted to think that our way and the Kirk's way is not God's way, for we're apt to treat the natural man as altogether corrupt, and put him under over-strict pains and penalties, whereas there's matter in him that might be shaped to the purposes of grace. If there's original sin, there's likewise original innocemce.
 * Ch. IX "Before Lammas"

 * If the Kirk confines human nature too strictly, it will break out in secret ways, for men and women are born into a terrestrial world, though they have hopes of Heaven.
 * Ch. X "What the Moon Saw"

 * [T]here was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity.
 * Ch. XIII "White Magic"

 * [A] falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.
 * Ch. XIV "The Counterblast"

 * I am a minister of Christ first and of the Kirk second. If the Kirk forgets its Master's teaching, we part company.
 * Ch. XIV "The Counterblast"

 * [T]he Kirk of Scotland as at present guidit […] is a kind o' Papery wi' fifty Papes instead o' ane.
 * Ch. XVII "Woodilee and Calidon"

Castle Gay (1930)

 * He knew nothing accurately about any subject in the world, but he could clothe his ignorance in pontifical garments and give his confusion the accents of authority. He had a remarkable flair for discerning and elaborating the tiny quantum of popular knowledge on any matter.
 * Ch. 2

 * [On the newspapers of the Craw Press:] Their politics are an opiate to prevent folk thinking.
 * Ch. 3

 * Mrs. Brisbane-Brown was a relic, but only the unthinking would have called her a snob. For snobbishness implies some sense of insecurity, and she was perfectly secure.
 * Ch. 6

 * The Scottish Communist is a much misunderstood person. When he is a true Caledonian, and not a Pole or an Irishman, he is simply the lineal descendant of the old Radical. The Scottish Radical was a man who held a set of inviolable principles on which he was entirely unable to compromise. It did not matter what the principles were; the point was that they were like the laws of Sinai, which could not be added to or subtracted from. When the Liberal party began to compromise, he joined Labour; when Labour began to compromise, by a natural transition he became a Communist. Temperamentally he has not changed. He is simply the stuff which in the seventeenth century made the unyielding Covenanter, and in the eighteenth the inflexible Jacobite. He is honesty incarnate, but his mind lacks flexibility.
 * Ch. 14

 * [W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
 * Ch. 19

 * He realised how oddly detached he was.[…] He enjoyed every moment, but he knew that his enjoyment came largely from standing a little apart. He was not a cynic, for there was no sourness in him. He had a kindliness towards most things, and a large charity. But he did not take sides. He had not accepted any mood, or creed, or groove of his own. Vix ea nostra voco [I scarcely call these things our own] was his motto. He was only a seeker […] occupied in finding out what was in his soul.
 * Ch. 20

The Blanket of the Dark (1931)

 * [W]isdom is apt to cohabit with oddity.
 * Ch. IV

 * [Y}outh is a hard judge.
 * Ch. X

 * I incline to the belief that in the light of eternity all our truths are shadows, and that the very truth we shall only know hereafter. Yet I think that every truth in its own place is a substance, though it may be a shadow in another place. And I think that all such shadows have value for our souls, for each is a true shadow, as the substance is a true substance.
 * Ch. X

 * There is a madness that is better than wisdom.
 * Ch. XIII

The House of the Four Winds (1935)

 * He had never been lonely in his life before he met her, having at the worst found good company in himself; but now he longed for a companion, and out of all the many millions of the earth's inhabitants there was only one that he wanted.
 * Prologue

 * I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.
 * Prologue

 * If anyone makes trouble I've advised him to dot him one on the jaw in the best British style.
 * Ch. III

 * "You can help me to keep my head cool," was the answer. "You stand for the world of common sense which will always win in the long run. When I'm inclined to run amok you'll remind me of England. You'll lower the temperature."
 * Ch. IV

 * He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.
 * Ch. XI

 * It's the Idea that wins every time — the Idea with brains and guts behind it.
 * Envoi

Augustus (1937)

 * History does not repeat itself except with variations, and it is idle to look for exact parallels, but we can trace a resemblance between the conditions of his time and those of to-day. Once again the crust of civilization has worn thin, and beneath can be heard the muttering of primeval fires. Once again many accepted principles of government have been overthrown, and the world has become a laboratory where immature and feverish minds experiment with unknown forces. Once again problems cannot be comfortably limited, for science has brought the nations into an uneasy bondage to each other. In the actual business of administration there is no question of today which Augustus had not to face and answer.

 * If his "magna imago" could return to earth, he would be puzzled at some of our experiments in empire, and might well complain that the imperfections of his work were taken as its virtues, and that so many truths had gone silently out of mind. He had prided himself on having given the world peace, and he would be amazed by the loud praise of war as a natural and wholesome concomitant of a nation's life. Wars he had fought from an anxious desire to safeguard his people, as the shepherd builds the defences of his sheepfold; but he hated the thing, because he knew well the deadly "disordering," which the Greek historian noted as the consequence of the most triumphant campaign. He would marvel, too, at the current talk of racial purity, the exaltation of one breed of men as the chosen favourites of the gods. That would seem to him not only a defiance of the new Christian creed, but of the Stoicism which he had sincerely professed.

 * The Augustan constitution remains one of the major products of the human intelligence. It was a whole into which the parts fitted smoothly, but both whole and parts were elastic and capable of swift adaptation to unforeseen conditions. It was elaborate, but that was necessary, both because of its origin and its purpose.

 * Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

 * There is no merit in an empire as such. Extension in space does not necessarily mean spiritual advancement. The small community is easier to govern, and, it may well be, more pleasant to live in. If its opportunities are limited its perils are also circumscribed. But the alternatives which confronted him were empire or anarchy.

 * The Athenian empire lasted for fifty years at the most, and the stupendous creation of Alexander the Great for less. What has been the fate of succeeding imperialisms? That of Spain endured on the grand scale for little more than a century; that of Napoleon for a decade; the British Empire is less than two centuries old, and in its present form is a thing of yesterday. In the brief span of recorded history empires have had a shorter life than many monarchies, theocracies, and even republics. The Augustan alone reached a venerable age. In the coming of Christianity it had to face the greatest of all historic convulsions, but such was its potency that it weathered the storm and influenced profoundly the organization of the Christian church.

 * The true achievement of Augustus is that he saved the world from disintegration. Without him Rome must have lost her conquests one by one, and seen them relapse into barbarism or degenerate into petty satrapies. The wild peoples of the East and North would have ante-dated their invasions by centuries.

 * It is due to him that the Roman concepts of public duty and service are still a living force among us. Historians have denied him the name of genius which they grant readily to Alexander and Julius and Napoleon; but if it be not genius to re-make and re-direct the world by a courageous realism and supreme powers of character and mind, then the word has no meaning in human speech..

Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)

 * US title: Pilgrim's Way: An Essay in Recollection (1940)

 * To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
 * Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 26

 * He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
 * Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 58

 * Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
 * Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 117

 * There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
 * Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 117

 * Now that the once omnipotent Liberal party has so declined, it is hard to realise how formidable it was in 1911—especially in Scotland. Its dogmas were so completely taken for granted that their presentation partook less of argument than of a tribal incantation. Mr. Gladstone had given it an aura of earnest morality, so that its platforms were also pulpits and its harangues had the weight of sermons. Its members seemed to assume that their opponents must be lacking either in morals or mind. The Tories were the "stupid" party; Liberals alone understood and sympathised with the poor; a working man who was not a Liberal was inaccessible to reason, or morally corrupt, or intimidated by laird or employer. I remember a lady summing up the attitude thus: Tories may think they are better born, but Liberals know that they are born better.

 * The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
 * Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 241

 * Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
 * Pilgrim’s Way (1940)

Canadian Occasions (1940)

 * The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.
 * "A University's Bequest to Youth" Speech in Toronto (10 October 1936)

 * We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity.
 * "A University's Bequest to Youth" (10 October 1936)

 * A great storm destroys much that is precious, but it may also clear the air and blow down trees which might have been obscuring the view and making our life stuffy, and reveal in our estate possibilities of development that we had not thought of.
 * "A University's Bequest to Youth" (10 October 1936)

 * To-day we have fewer dogmas, but I think that we have stronger principles. By a dogma I mean a deduction from facts which is only valid under certain conditions, and which becomes untrue if those conditions change. By a principle I mean something that is an eternal and universal truth.
 * "A University's Bequest to Youth" (10 October 1936)

 * Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes.
 * "A University's Bequest to Youth" (10 October 1936)

 * I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.
 * A play on words commonly used referring to vagrants or paupers as having "no visible means of support" financially, speaking to the Law Society of Upper Canada, (21 February 1936); published in Canadian Occasions (1940), p. 201. Buchan's source for this definition remains unknown.  The witticism was repeated by Harry Emerson Fosdick in his On Being a Real Person (1943), ch. 1, with due acknowledgement to Buchan, and was again used by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in Look magazine (December 14, 1955). The credit for this line is therefore often wrongly given to Fosdick or to Sheen. Credit has also been given to the conductor Walter Damrosch (1862-1950).

Misattributed

 * He who would valiant be against all disaster; Let him in constancy Follow the Master. There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent; His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
 * This has appeared on the internet attributed to Buchan, but is actually John Bunyan, as quoted in The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations (2001) by Martin H. Manser

 * Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
 * This has similarly been attributed to Buchan, but is actually a misrendering of a sentence from the first paragraph of John Bunyan, Discourse on Prayer. Bunyan's original sentence reads: "It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled."

 * The best prayers have often more groans than words.
 * This has also been attributed to Buchan, but is again from John Bunyan, Discourse on Prayer.

Quotes about

 * Alongside politicians and the press, writers of fiction picked up the theme of a sinister Communist threat, a theme that drew on the intelligence wars between the Soviet Union and the West. John Buchan, a Scottish novelist who had served in intelligence during World War One before becoming an MP, saw the hidden hand of a Communist plot to take over the world. In her novel The Big Four (1927), Agatha Christie, a successful British novelist, referred to ‘the world-wide unrest, the labour troubles that beset every nation, and the revolutions that break out in some’. The sense of menace played an important role in imaginative fiction. It took forward the pre-war strand of spy fiction, but added a theme of social disorder. There was also frequently a racial dimension, with a tendency to depict hostile figures as Slav and Jewish, frequently in league with sinister elements in British (or French or American) society. This theme drew on a broader hostility to Jews that was given renewed energy by the association of the Russian Revolution in hostile eyes with them. Russian émigrés spread this assessment. In turn, there was similar material in the Soviet Union about Western plots to overthrow the Revolution, a theme that long continued.
 * Jeremy Black, The Cold War: A Military History (2015)

title: John Buchan


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Sky High (2005 film)

Sky High is a Disney 2005 film about students at an exclusive high school for superheroes.
 * Directed by Mike Mitchell. Written by Paul Hernandez and Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle.

Saving the world...one homework assignment at a time. (taglines)

Will Stronghold

 * [After realizing who Royal Pain really is] Oh, my God. I made out with an old lady.

Coach Boomer / Sonic Boom

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Dialogue

 * Will Stronghold: [voiceover] You look at them and see the defenders of the world. All I see is my dad. Wearing tights.

 * Steve Stronghold: I know every kid thinks his dad is invincible – and I nearly am. But who knows? Maybe next time I punch a meteor hurtling toward the earth, I'll be the one that shatters into a million pieces.

 * Layla: I noticed you had some recyclables in the trash. I took the liberty of moving them for you.
 * Josie Stonghold: Thank you, Layla. You hungry? I've got plenty of eggs, bacon…
 * Layla: No, thanks. You know how my mom can communicate with animals? Apparently, they don't like being eaten.
 * [a brief but awkward pause]
 * Josie: How about some juice?

 * News Anchorman: It seems evil has struck our morning commute…

 * Layla: Now, I know it's just our first day, but I already can't wait to graduate and start saving mankind. And womankind. And animalkind.
 * Will: And the rainforest.
 * Layla: Of course!

 * ["Power Placement" trials are being conducted with the other students as an audience.]
 * Layla: What is humiliating him in front of the entire class going to prove? This is so unfair.
 * Will: Yeah, well, if life were to suddenly get fair, I doubt it would happen in high school.

 * Principal Powers: [on school public address system] The cafeteria staff would like to remind sidekicks to stop ordering hero sandwiches. [the kids exchange "You've gotta be kidding me" looks]

 * Principal Powers: [on school public address system] A reminder that there is no smoking on the campus. Or freezing, or bursting into flames.

 * Nurse Spex: The kids who get, uh, bitten by radioactive insects or fall into a vat of toxic waste, their powers usually show up the next day. Or… they die.

 * Layla: When life gives you lemons... [creates a tree and grabs an apple]
 * Will: ...make apple juice?
 * Layla: [laughs exasperatedly] I can't make lemons! I don't know what it is.

 * Steve: All I ever wanted for him was to save the world. To just... feel that, once.
 * Josie: That's an awful lot to put on a 14-year-old's shoulders.
 * Steve: Oh, come on, Josie. When I was his age I could put a truck on my shoulders.

 * Josie: We can't change who he is. Not without dropping him in a vat of toxic waste.
 * [Steve turns to look at Josie and raises his finger]
 * Josie: Steve.
 * Steve: Now where would we even find a vat of...
 * Josie: [understandably alarmed] Steve!

 * [Will and Warren are in the Detention Room for fighting.]
 * Will: Look, whatever happened with our dads, it has nothing to do with us. [extends a hand for shaking] What do you say?
 * Warren: I say, if you ever cross me again, I'll roast you alive.

 * Mr. Medulla: Rays! From the silliness of the shrink ray to the devastation of the death ray, these are the very foundations of Mad Science!

 * Warren Peace: You want me to heat that up for you?
 * Layla: [in urgent whisper] You're not supposed to use your powers outside of school!
 * Warren Peace: I was just gonna stick it in the microwave.

 * [In Mad Science class, Gwen has just used her powers to instantly create a ray gun.]
 * Gwen: I'm a technopath. I can control technology with my mind.
 * Will: Wow. All I can do is... punch stuff.
 * Mr. Medulla: [passing them] And yet he'll be the one on cereal boxes. Show me the justice in that.

 * Mr. Medulla: Dreadful technique. You've confused rays with beams! D! Minus! I'd give you an F, but that would only mean having to see you in summer school.

 * Layla: So then there was this time in the first grade. You know how you grow lima beans in school? Well, Will could not figure out why mine were growing so quickly. It was driving him crazy. So finally I took mercy on him and told him about my powers. And we've been best friends ever since.
 * Warren Peace: Hmm. And falling for him, was that before or after the lima beans?
 * Layla: WHAT? I am not in love with Will Strong… is it that obvious?
 * Warren Peace: Yeah.
 * Layla: Great.

 * Warren Peace: You know what I think? To let true love remain unspoken is the quickest route to a heavy heart.
 * Layla: Wow. That is really deep.
 * Warren Peace: Yeah. [holds up slip of paper from a fortune cookie] And your lucky numbers are four, sixteen, five, and forty-nine.

 * [Will's attempt at a good night kiss is foiled when Gwen's "father" ushers her inside the house.]
 * Mr. Grayson: You're not that boy with the six arms, are you?
 * Will: No, sir. J-just two.
 * Mr.Grayson: Well… keep them to yourself.

 * Coach Boomer: What if I told you she's not just a twin, she's an evil twin?
 * Mr. Medulla: This Friday, you say?
 * Coach Boomer: [chuckles] Medulla, you dog!

 * [Layla has asked Warren to be her date for Homecoming.]
 * Layla: Please? I promise I'll make this as painless as possible.
 * Warren Peace: So, you're not doing this just 'cause you like me or anything. You're doing this to get to Stronghold.
 * Layla: Yeah.
 * Warren: [grins] Then I'm in! [grin vanishes] But I'm not renting a tux.

 * Speed: Why don't we settle this in P.E.?
 * Will Stronghold: Settle what?
 * Ethan: You're on! If Will beats you in "Save the Citizen", you lay off the sidekicks for the rest of the year.
 * Zach: Yeah! And if he loses, you can dunk Ethan's head in the toilet every day till graduation.
 * Ethan: Yeah. Huh?!
 * Lash: You got yourself a deal.
 * [After Lash and Speed leave]
 * Will: Guys, are you crazy? No freshman ever won "Save the Citizen", and those guys are undefeated!
 * Layla: And you barely know how to use your powers! [the others glare at her] Sorry. Not helping.
 * Zach: Will, you have no choice. You can't let them dunk Ethan's head in the toilet. Not again. The dunking… must end.

 * Royal Pain: Homecoming – the greatest collection of super-teens ever gathered to dance under one roof! And then, we shall have our revenge! There's only one thing we're missing.
 * Stitches: King Kamehamayhem's surfboard?
 * Royal Pain: [moves the lever] Darn this joystick!
 * Stitches: Ah! Right, right. The Pacifier. Hey, smooth moves on the joystick. [Royal Pain reaches to choke him, but Stitches blocks it] Aah! [Laughs, but then Royal Pain chokes Stitches with the other hand] Uncle! Uncle! Uncle!

 * [On a double date, Coach Boomer drinks bitterly while both good and evil twins cling to Mr. Medulla.]
 * Twin: You really said that?
 * Mr. Medulla: True story.
 * Evil Twin: You're so funny!
 * Mr. Medulla: I love life!

 * [Warren has revealed that his date with Layla is a ploy to make Will jealous.]
 * Warren Peace: Dude, you're so stupid. She's totally into you.
 * Will: Not anymore. Not after tonight. I wouldn't be surprised if Layla or any of the other guys ever want to speak to me again.
 * Warren: Yeah. You must've been a real jerk. 'Cause no matter what I do, I can't get them to stop talking to me.

 * Josie: People make mistakes, Will. That's what high school's about. Heck, that's what life's about! The key is to learn from them.
 * Will: I hope my friends see it that way.
 * Josie: If someone is a true friend, you'd be surprised how understanding they can be.

 * Ron Wilson, Bus Driver: There's only one person authorized to transport superheroes: Ron Wilson, Bus Driver. [punches Stitches out of the bus] And I'm Ron Wilson, Bus Driver.

 * Steve: Royal Pain is a girl.
 * Royal Pain: Yes, I'm a girl, you idiot! How I ever lost to a fool like you I'll never know, now prepare to be pacified.
 * Steve: Do you honestly think you can kill me with that toy gun of yours?
 * Royal Pain: My dear Commander, who said anything about killing you?

 * Gwen: That's right. Royal Pain wasn't my mother. Royal Pain is ME!
 * Will: Oh my God, I made out with an old lady.

 * Principal Powers: What a waste. I can't do anything more for you. I'm not Wonder Woman, you know.

 * Gwen: I went through puberty twice… for this?!

 * Will: Layla, in case my Homecoming date ends up killing me tonight, I just want you to know... [pulls Layla into a deep kiss]

 * Will: [voiceover] So in the end, my girlfriend became my arch-enemy, my arch-enemy became my best friend, and my best friend became my girlfriend. But, hey – that's high school.

 [after Gwen makes Layla cry and turn on Will; a confused and upset Will confronts Gwen about it]
 * Gwen: Well, you've got new friends now, and I think that you need to figure out whether you hang out with us – or with those losers. Come on, let's go.
 * Will: [pulls away, disgusted] No, forget it. I'm not going anywhere with you. Not now, or not to homecoming. Might as well just find yourself a new date, Gwen.
 * Gwen: You're dumping me? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's just get something straight, okay? You DO NOT DUMP ME! Not the night before the dance!
 * Will: Sorry, Gwen, I, ah, just did. You're dumped!

Taglines

 * Saving the world...one homework assignment at a time.
 * A new class of heroes.
 * Brains, brawn and beyond.

Cast

 * Kelly Preston – Josie Stronghold/Jetstream
 * Lynda Carter – Principal Powers
 * Michael Angarano – Will Stronghold
 * Danielle Panabaker – Layla
 * Mary Elizabeth Winstead – Gwen Grayson/Sue Tenny/Royal Pain
 * Bruce Campbell – Coach Boomer/Sonic Boom
 * Dave Foley – Mr. Boy/All-American Boy
 * Steven Strait – Warren Peace
 * Kevin McDonald – Mr. Medulla
 * Cloris Leachman – Nurse Spex
 * Kurt Russell – Steve Stronghold/the Commander
 * Dee Jay Daniels – Ethan
 * Nicholas Braun – Zach
 * Kelly Vitz – Magenta
 * Kevin Heffernan – Ron Wilson, bus driver
 * Jim Rash – Mr. Grayson/Stitches
 * Jake Sandvig – Lash
 * Will Harris – Speed
 * Malika – Penny
 * Khadija – Penny
 * Patrick Warburton – voice of Royal Pain
 * Loren Berman – Little Larry
 * Dustin Ingram – Carbon Copy Kid
 * Amy Brown – twin
 * Kimmy Brown – evil twin
 * Nicole Malgarini – Freeze Girl

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Kevin Rowland

Kevin Rowland (born 17 August 1953) is a British-born Irish musician and was the songwriter and lead singer for Dexys Midnight Runners from 1978 to 1987. He has released two solo albums, 1988's The Wanderer and 1999's My Beauty.

Sourced

 * Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.
 * liner notes to Searching For the Young Soul Rebels (1980)

 * The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.
 * lyric to "There There My Dear" (1980)

 * I went to an art exhibition recently, and the guy had a quote of mine from that song there — "The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things." I wouldn't agree with shooting people at all. I was just anti-love. I feel differently now. But, you know. It's OK. That's how it was then, and it's good.
 * Tangents 2001 interview

 * I had someone come up to me at "Top Of The Pops" and say they thought our records were excellent. "Yeah," I replied. "I think yours are fucking shit." It was awful really.
 * Tangents 2001 interview

 * I never did feel like a star. I was always uptight about something and uncomfortable and not very good. I felt weighed down by it, the pressure. It's terrible I should have enjoyed it but I didn't; I was thinking about what we should do all the time, I wasn't able to run with it.
 * Interview - March 2010

 * I did loads of stupid things, like the way I used to argue with EMI Records. I just look back to the time now and wonder how I would have reacted to some prick coming into my office shouting and kicking things.
 * NME - July 1982

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User talk:80.3.160.7

Deliberate vandalism can result in IP numbers being blocked from editing. ~ Kalki 23:45, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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Richard Mottram

Sir Richard Clive Mottram, GCB (born 23 April 1946) is a former British civil servant, who retired in 2007 from his most recent senior post as Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office.

Quotes

 * We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. The whole department's fucked. It's been the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely fucked.
 * Friday, 15 February 2002, about a scandalous email Rawnsley, Andrew. 'Why nothing sticks to New Labour', The Observer (3 March 2002).

 * In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.
 * February 1985, as a prosecution witness in the case against Clive Ponting Norton-Taylor, Richard. 'Sir Richard Mottram, The Guardian (25 February 2002).

 * The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.
 * April 2004, explaining to the Commons committee on public administration why there are so many different levels of honours Hoggart, Simon. 'Sir Humphrey reveals his Dusty Springfield side', The Guardian (30 April 2004).

 * When you are in the future, the past looks different.
 * April 2004, to the Commons committee on public administration, Hoggart, Simon. 'Sir Humphrey reveals his Dusty Springfield side', The Guardian (30 April 2004).

 * We have six of the most distinguished people in the field on the committee, but you'll just have to take my word for it because I'm not allowed to disclose their names.
 * April 2004, explaining to the Commons committee on public administration who was on the committee that recommended scientists for honours Hoggart, Simon. 'Sir Humphrey reveals his Dusty Springfield side', The Guardian (30 April 2004).

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User talk:Hujaza~enwikiquote

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Wikiquote:Stub

Stubs, as the name suggests, are articles which have not yet grown beyond a few quotes. These articles have been created, but do not include enough information to be truthfully considered "articles" or collections of quotations. However, the Wikiquote community believes that stubs are far from worthless; they are, rather, the first step articles take on their course to becoming complete.

Identifying a stub
A stub is an article which is too short to be truly useful, but not so short as to be useless. In general, it should have at least one quotation, and should have some identifying information of the article's title (be it a link to, 2-3 sentences of introduction, etc.). If the article lacks the former, it could be a candidate for speedy or regular deletion, while a page that lacks the latter, especially for a long time, might also be nominated for deletion (see no-intro).

Categorizing stubs
After writing or finding a stub article, the editor should insert what is called a stub template, which makes it possible for the article to be flagged as a stub. By convention, these stub templates should be placed near the top of the article. (If the article has a short introductory paragraph, placing the tag immediately after this is both useful and elegant.)

Stub templates are composed of two distinct parts: first, a short message stating that said article is a stub of a particular kind and encouraging editors to expand it; second, a category link, which places the article on a stub category, together with other stubs on the same subject.

The need for stub categories arose when the main stub category—Category:Wikiquote stubs—became so full that it became quite hard to find articles on a specific topic. With stub categories, if an editor is, for example, television fan, he or she can look for articles with the tag tv-stub in Category:TV stubs and easily find stubs to edit.

In general, the naming convention for stub templates is topic-stub; for a complete list of these templates, refer to the stub list. When marking articles as stubs, please be as precise and accurate as you possibly can—it saves other editors a lot of work further down the road. If an article overlaps two potential categories, two different stub templates may be used, but using more than two is strongly discouraged.

Ideal stub article
When you write a stub article, bear in mind that its main purpose is to be expanded, and thus it should include enough information to allow other editors to expand it. By preference, your subject should have a Wikipedia article. (You can create a Wikipedia stub yourself; see for the Wikipedia stub guidelines.) In either case, a short introduction is useful, and is strongly encouraged if there is no Wikipedia article. Your initial research may be done either through books or through a reliable search engine such as Yahoo! or Google. You may also contribute with knowledge you have acquired from other sources, but it is useful to conduct a small amount of research beforehand.

Then, you should find at least one quotation. Sourced quotations (those with a specific, verifiable reference) are preferable, but widely attributed quotes are also accepted, as long as they are clearly marked as "attributed". Even though the stub message puts the article into a stub category, you are strongly encouraged to put the article into a regular category as well; see Category:Categories.

One important source for quotations, particularly of literary works, is related works from other people. Chances are, if one author found it worth quoting, then it's probably good Wikiquote material as well, and this may help you track down the original source. (A good number of Wikiquote articles started out this way.) You might also look for reviews, summaries, or biographies of your subject for pertinent material; material from these sources may help to start an "About" or "Criticism" section. (You should probably avoid consulting other compendia of quotations, however, unless you are willing and able to track down the original source; such publications sometimes have inadequate or inaccurate references.)

Once you have submitted the article, there are a number of courses it may take. Another editor might get interested in it and develop it further, or you could expand it yourself once you have found more quotations related to the subject or once you have more free time on your hands.

Locating stubs

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User talk:HooperX~enwikiquote

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User talk:208.186.144.87

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:45, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Ogden Nash

Cleanup
I've marked this article for cleanup because it uses a deprecated heading, "Verified", which fails to provide any advantage over "Attributed". (Who verified it? How?) A "Sourced" section should be created, into which should be placed any quotes whose precise sources have been determined. (That allows other editors to easily "verify" the material.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:00, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I cleaned the article up a bit, removing a couple things:

A very similar quote stems from the pen of Piet Hein: "The road to wisdom ...".
 * "At last I've found the secret, that guarantees success. To err, and err, and err again, but less, and less, and less."

I removed the above entry from the artiicle page as this seems very likely to be a very recent misattribution, and perhaps a variant translation or alteration of lines by Piet Hein. There appears to be only about a half dozen sites on the internet that attribute this to Ogden Nash, perhaps the earliest appearing in "Heuristics for Iterative Software Development" by Drasko Sotirovski, IEEE Software, vol. 18,  no. 3,  pp. 66-73,  (May/June  2001) where the author states "...as Bob Glass has said, quoting Ogden Nash, "At last I've found the secret that guarantees success: to err, and err, and err again...". If it were truly an Ogden Nash poem it's citations would likely be far more prominent, and I wish to prevent the use of it in our own article space as giving the attribution any sort of prominence or apparent sanction such as I believe it very probably does not merit.

Also removed was:

 * What's a fish without an eye? --A FSHHHHH! :)

I removed this from "misattributions" because it seems to be merely a user's "joke". ~ Kalki 10:58, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to Ogden Nash. --Antiquary 19:31, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

 * Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.

 * My field — the minor idiocies of humanity.

 * Too clever is dumb.

That is constantly heard/Hate is a word That is not Love, I am told Is more precious than gold Love, I have heard Is hot But hate is the verb That to me is superb And love, just a drug On the mart For any kiddie from school Can love like a fool But hating, my boy Is an art
 * Love is a word

 * Smallpox is natural, Vaccine ain't.

 * If the German people had had a more highly developed sense of humor, they'd never have let Hitler pull the wool over their eyes. The first time they saw someone goose-stepping and raising a stiff arm and shouting, 'Heil Hitler,' they'd have keeled over laughing.

Source of this one?
This one I've carried in my head for decades, and while it definitely has a Nash-like feel to it, I can't find it in any of the linked collections of samples and I therefore assume I'm mistaken about its source. Can someone give me a proper (or even best-guess) origin for it? Many thanks. (P.S., sorry for the formatting, I'm relatively new here and unfamiliar with the proper coding.)

The bees are very busy souls, They've got no time for birth control; And that is why, in times like these, There are so many sons of bees.

Here's a version that's somewhat longer, and it's not attributable to Ogden Nash. Here's one of the places I found it: http://motd.ambians.com/quotes.php/name/linux_songs_poems/toc_id/1-1-31/s/585 This is the story of the bee Whose sex is very hard to see

You cannot tell the he from the she But she can tell, and so can he

The little bee is never still She has no time to take the pill

And that is why, in times like these There are so many sons of bees.

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User talk:OlivierAnsaldi

Please note that the standard here is not to mark edits which add quotations as "minor". "Minor" is reserved for such things as minor formatting and meta-data edits. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:00, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Barry Humphries

Merged pages' histories
From Sir Les Patterson * (cur) (last) 13:17, 25 August 2005 MosheZadka (remove stub notice from to-be-merged article) * (cur) (last) 13:16, 25 August 2005 MosheZadka (merge -> Barry Humphries) * (cur) (last) 15:09, 12 April 2005 213.78.163.218 * (cur) (last) 15:05, 12 April 2005 213.78.163.218 From Dame Edna Everage * (cur) (last) 13:17, 25 August 2005 MosheZadka (remove stub notice from to-be-merged article) * (cur) (last) 13:16, 25 August 2005 MosheZadka (merge -> Barry Humphries) * (cur) (last) 14:47, 12 April 2005 213.78.163.218

Unsourced

 * "To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."

 * "New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. "

As Dame Edna Everage

 * Hello possums! (Greeting to her audience)

 * I was born in Melbourne with a precious gift. Dame Nature stooped over my cot and gave me this gift. It was the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

 * Forget Spanish. There's nothing in that language worth reading except Don Quixote, and a quick listen to the CD of Man of La Mancha will take care of that. There was a poet named Garcia Lorca, but I'd leave him on the intellectual back burner if I were you. As for everyone's speaking it, what twaddle! Who speaks it that you are really desperate to talk to? The help? Your leaf blower? Study French or German, where there are at least a few books worth reading, or, if you're American, try English. (Advice given in a Vanity Fair agony column)

 * (to a member of the audience, Back with Vengeance tour, Melbourne, 2006) I'm trying to think of a word to describe your outfit ...affordable.

As Sir Les Patterson

 * The Yartz. (Sir Les's area of concern)

 * I'm that low I could parachute out of a snake's arsehole and still have room to free-fall.

 * Are you with me? (Sir Les's usual comment to the audience after a suggestive remark)

 * My wife's so boring, she could bore an arsehole on a wooden horse.

As Barry McKenzie

 * I'm up shit creek in a barb-wire canoe without a paddle.

 * He was as busy as a one-armed taxi driver with crabs.

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User talk:68.20.208.150

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