Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses. ~ Eric Berne
- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. ~ Kate Sheppard (born 10 March 1847)
- selected by Kalki
- 2007
- I'm not aware of too many things.
I know what I know if you know what I mean.
~ Edie Brickell ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- We are tired of having a "sphere" doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is "unwomanly". We want to be natural just for a change … we must be ourselves at all risks. ~ Kate Sheppard
- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
- In men whom men condemn as ill
I find so much of goodness still,
In men whom men pronounce divine
I find so much of sin and blot,
I do not dare to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.
~ Joaquin Miller ~
- proposed by Zarbon
- 2010
- Rank or add further suggestions…
Ranking system:
- 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
- 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
- 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
- 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
- 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.
Suggestions
Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave. ~ Edie Brickell ~
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:33, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 04:14, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep. ~ Edie Brickell
- 2 Zarbon 16:26, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 08:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC) interesting line, but in some ways not clearly indicative of the full point of the song.
- 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever know Love like we do. ~ Edie Brickell ~
- 3 Kalki 08:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what? ~ Edie Brickell ~
- 4 Kalki 08:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC) Major point of her most famous song.
- 1 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few but such as cannot write, translate. ~ John Denham (date of birth unknown/date of death)
- 3 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. ~ John Denham
- 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show, We may our ends by our beginnings know. ~ John Denham
- 3 and leaning toward 4 because inside the youth is hidden the man of tomorrow. Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Search not to find what lies too deeply hid, Nor to know things, whose knowledge is forbid. ~ John Denham
- 3 or in other words, don't mess with what you shouldn't. Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain. ~ John Denham
- 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I saw the lightning's gleaming rod Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God. ~ Joaquin Miller
- 3 and leaning toward 4. Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
The very clouds have wept and died And only God is in the sky. ~ Joaquin Miller
- 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ~ Chuck Norris
- 3 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Let justice be done, though the world perish. ~ Ferdinand I
- 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh! ~ Harriet Tubman (date of birth unknown/date of death)
- 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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