November 20
2004
- The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ~ Margot Fonteyn
- selected by Kalki
2005
- The Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. ~ Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923)
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. ~ Nadine Gordimer (date of birth)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. ... Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ~ Robert F. Kennedy (born 20 November 1925)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
- proposed by Kalki
2009
Suggestions
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. ~ Nadine Gordimer, born that day- 3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 06:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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The facts are always less than what really happened. ~ Nadine Gordimer (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 21:29, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 21:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)- 2 Zarbon 06:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Lyle 15:42, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. ~ Nadine Gordimer
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 06:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. ~ Nadine Gordimer
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 14:46, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 06:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Lyle 15:42, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
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It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender. ~ Nazim Hikmet
- 4 because dying with one's fundamentals is better than living without them. Zarbon 02:05, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 19:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Lyle 15:42, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
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The strangest of our powers
Is the courage to live
Knowing that we will die,
Knowing nothing more true. ~ Nazim Hikmet
- 2 Zarbon 02:05, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 19:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
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You're my bondage and my freedom,
my flesh burning like a naked summer night,
you're my country.
Hazel eyes marbled green,
you're awesome, beautiful, and brave,
you're my desire always just out of reach. ~ Nazim Hikmet
- 2 Zarbon 02:05, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 19:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself. ~ Benoît Mandelbrot
- 2 Zarbon 02:05, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 19:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. ~ Benoît Mandelbrot
- 2 Zarbon 02:05, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 19:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
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My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern. ~ Benoît Mandelbrot
- 2 Zarbon 02:05, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 19:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 4 Lyle 15:42, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. ~ Don DeLillo
- 3 Zarbon 02:05, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 19:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Lyle 15:42, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in "inventing" something. It's an arrogance that some enjoy, and others do not. Now I reach beyond arrogance when I proclaim that fractals had been pictured forever but their true role remained unrecognized and waited for me to be uncovered. ~ Benoît Mandelbrot
- 3 Kalki 19:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 Zarbon 03:12, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
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I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people. ~ Joe Biden
- 3 Zarbon 19:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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There is a great deal of pressure, in the one particular area at least, to prostitute our ideas, if not our integrity. ~ Joe Biden
- 3 and leaning toward a 4. Zarbon 19:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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A better man might have handled the situation with more grace than I did. A better man would have been able to separate his personal life from his career. ~ Joe Biden
- 3 and leaning toward a 4. Zarbon 19:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC) no clear context provided.
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I didn't argue that the war in Vietnam was immoral; it was merely stupid and a horrendous waste of time, money, and lives based on a flawed premise. ~ Joe Biden
- 3 and leaning toward a 4. Zarbon 19:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole. ~ Joe Biden
- 3 Zarbon 19:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong. ~ Joe Biden
- 3 Zarbon 19:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work. ~ Joe Biden
- 3 Zarbon 21:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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I, too, believe there are natural rights that predate any written political or legal documents; we have these rights merely because we're children of God. ~ Joe Biden
- 3 Zarbon 21:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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Almighty Framer of the Skies!
O let our pure devotion rise,
Like Incense in thy Sight!
Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,
The Texture of our Souls were made,
Till thy Command gave Light.
~ Thomas Chatterton ~
- 3 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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How shall we celebrate the day,
When God appeared in mortal clay,
The mark of worldly scorn;
When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,
Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,
And hail'd Salvation's Morn!
~ Thomas Chatterton ~
- 3 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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We are Goddes stewards all, nete of oure owne we bare.
~ Thomas Chatterton ~
- 3 Kalki 11:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
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