August 29

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003
I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it. ~ Clarence Darrow
  • selected by Nanobug
2004
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. ~ William Cowper
  • selected by Kalki
2005
I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (born 29 August 1809)
  • proposed by Kalki
2006
Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts. ~ John Locke (born 29 August 1632)
  • proposed by Kalki
2007
The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
  • proposed by Kalki
2008
Mankind has advanced. Human progress is ceaseless. We can … conclude that building just societies is a fool's errand. We are always, despite our advances, only one sin away from slipping into the abyss of terror and ignorance. But that is not so. Generations upon generations have driven the human race farther and farther from darkness. ~ John McCain
  • proposed by Zarbon
2009
Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the Creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing and then, it is the eternal dance of creation. The Creator and the creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing — until there is only … the dance. ~ Michael Jackson ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2010
Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • proposed by Kalki
2011
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~ John Locke
  • proposed by Kalki
2012
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2013
I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change.
~ Michael Jackson ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2014
There is reason to think, that, if men were better instructed themselves, they would be less imposing on others.
~ John Locke ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2015
Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.
~ Michael Jackson ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2016
Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me.
~ Michael Jackson ~
  • proposed by Zarbon
2017
Like most people of my age, I feel a longing for what is lost and cannot be restored. But if the happy pursuits and casual beauty of youth prove ephemeral, something better can endure, and endure until our last moment on earth. And that is the honor we earn and the love we give if at a moment in our lives we sacrifice for something greater than self-interest.
We cannot choose the moments. They arrive unbidden by us. We can choose to let the moments pass, and avoid the difficulties they entail. But the loss we would incur by that choice is much dearer than the tribute we once paid to vanity and pleasure.
~ John McCain ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2018
To be connected to America’s causes — liberty, equal justice, respect for the dignity of all people — brings happiness more sublime than life’s fleeting pleasures. Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves.
"Fellow Americans" — that association has meant more to me than any other. I lived and died a proud American. We are citizens of the world’s greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. We are blessed and are a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance those ideals at home and in the world. We have helped liberate more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. We have acquired great wealth and power in the process.
We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.
We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.
~ John McCain ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2019
No one of good character leaves behind a wasted life — whether they die in obscurity or renown. "Character," wrote the 19th Century evangelist, Dwight Moody, "is what you are in the dark." Your character is not tested on occasions of public scrutiny or acclaim. It is not tested in moments when the object of your actions is the regard of another. Your character is what you are to yourself, not what you pretend to be to yourself or others. Although human beings often attempt self-delusion, we cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves. It will make itself known to us by means of our conscience despite our most strenuous effort to suppress it.
~ John McCain ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2020
The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. … President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world. … No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant. Not only did President Trump fail to speak the truth about an adversary; but speaking for America to the world, our president failed to defend all that makes us who we are — a republic of free people dedicated to the cause of liberty at home and abroad. American presidents must be the champions of that cause if it is to succeed. Americans are waiting and hoping for President Trump to embrace that sacred responsibility. One can only hope they are not waiting totally in vain.
~ John McCain ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2021
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
~ John McCain ~
  • proposed by Zarbon
2022
We’re going back to the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and inspiration for a new generation of explorers: the Artemis Generation. While maintaining American leadership in exploration, we will build a global alliance and explore deep space for the benefit of all.
… All that we build, all that we study, all that we do, prepares us to go. …
OUR SUCCESS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
~ NASA ~
  • proposed by Kalki; in regard of the scheduled launch of Artemis 1, the Artemis project's unmanned first test mission around the moon.
2023
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
~ Michael Jackson ~
  • proposed by Josephine W.
2024
I’d like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations. I would like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. We are citizens of a republic made of shared ideals forged in a new world to replace the tribal enmities that tormented the old one. Even in times of political turmoil such as these, we share that awesome heritage and the responsibility to embrace it. Whether we think each other right or wrong in our views on the issues of the day, we owe each other our respect, as long as our character merits respect, and as long as we share, for all our differences, for all the rancorous debates that enliven and sometimes demean our politics, a mutual devotion to the ideals our nation was conceived to uphold, that all are created equal, and liberty and equal justice are the natural rights of all. Those rights inhabit the human heart, and from there, though they may be assailed, they can never be wrenched. I want to urge Americans, for as long as I can, to remember that this shared devotion to human rights is our truest heritage and our most important loyalty.
~ John McCain ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2025
All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us.

Some things in life they just don't wanna see
But if Martin Luther was livin'
He wouldn't let this be.
~ Michael Jackson ~
  • proposed by Zarbon
2026

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On August 29th, 1997, it's gonna feel pretty fucking real to you too. Anybody not wearing 2 million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day. Get it? ~ Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 0 121a0012 00:13, August 25, 2005 (UTC) (best to avoid profanity on main page)
  • 0 Kalki 23:48, 28 August 2005 (UTC) agree with above statement.
  • 0 because too much profanity. Zarbon 16:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ~ Ingrid Bergman

  • 2 Zarbon 06:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 13:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
  • 3 InvisibleSun 22:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
  • 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

As people are not eaten, butchering them is of no use. ~ Arndt Pekurinen

  • 3 Zarbon 06:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 13:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 22:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC) I don't get it.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated. ~ John McCain

  • 2 Zarbon 06:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 Kalki 13:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 InvisibleSun 22:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars. ~ John McCain

  • 3 Zarbon 06:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 13:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 22:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC) Obvious.

You know I do really hate to say it
The government don't wanna see
But if Roosevelt was livin'
He wouldn't let this be.
~ Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us

  • 4 Zarbon 15:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 14:17, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
  • 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Tout est mal, tout est bien, tout le monde est content.
All is wrong, all is right, all the world is content. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (dob)

  • 4 Ficaia (talk) 03:19, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
  • 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
What I do know is that a writer's main job is to always be open to the possibilities of story. Like the interconnected lakes, old stories lead to new ones, and lead to new ways of seeing and living in the world.
~ Kathleen Alcalá ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:19, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
He that knows anything, knows this, in the first place, that he need not seek long for instances of his ignorance.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
He that uses words without any clear and steady meaning, what does he but lead himself and others into errors? And he that designedly does it, ought to be looked on as an enemy to truth and knowledge.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
Subtilty, in those who make profession to teach or defend truth, hath passed so much for a virtue: a virtue, indeed, which, consisting for the most part in nothing but the fallacious and illusory use of obscure or deceitful terms, is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance, and more obstinate in their errors.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
There is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
~ ~
  • 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
The boundaries of the species, whereby men sort them, are made by men.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
Since sounds have no natural connection with our ideas ... the doubtfulness and uncertainty of their signification ... has its cause more in the ideas they stand for than in any incapacity there is in one sound more than another to signify any idea.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
The three great things that govern mankind are reason, passion and superstition. The first governs a few, the two last share the bulk of mankind and possess them in their turns. But superstition most powerfully produces the greatest mischief.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
Freedom of Nature is, to be under no other restraint but the Law of Nature.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
The imagination is always restless and suggests a variety of thoughts, and the will, reason being laid aside, is ready for every extravagant project; and in this State, he that goes farthest out of the way, is thought fittest to lead, and is sure of most followers: And when Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it. He that will impartially survey the Nations of the World, will find so much of the Governments, Religion, and Manners brought in and continued amongst them by these means, that they will have but little Reverence for the Practices which are in use and credit amongst Men.
~ John Locke ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)


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