August 8

August 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." ~ Stephen Crane
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. ~ Tertullian
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. ~ Paul Dirac (born 8 August 8 1902)
 * proposed by 121a0012


 * 2006
 * Better to die on your feet than live on your knees! ~ Emiliano Zapata (born 8 August 1879)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace. ~ Sara Teasdale ~ (born 8 August 1884)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * If I am peaceful, I shall see Beauty's face continually; Feeding on her wine and bread I shall be wholly comforted, For she can make one day for me Rich as my lost eternity. ~ Sara Teasdale ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * If I can find out God, then I shall find Him, If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly, Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness. ~ Sara Teasdale ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2010
 * No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. ~ Shirley Jackson (in The Haunting of Hill House; died 8 August 1965)
 * proposed by Jeff Q


 * 2011
 * Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing From the immense blue circle of the sea, And the soft thunder where long waves whiten — These were the same for Sappho as for me. Two thousand years — much has gone by forever, Change takes the gods and ships and speech of men — But here on the beaches that time passes over The heart aches now as then.  ~ Sara Teasdale ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by Fossil
 * proposed by Fossil


 * 2013


 * proposed by Jeff Q


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki, for 70th anniversary of this published reaction of Albert Camus to news of the first use of a nuclear weapon.


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; anniversary of this resignation speech.


 * 2023


 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act. ~ Francis Hutcheson (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 11:18, 7 August 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:06, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love — But you will not assuage him. He alone Of all the gods will take no gifts from men. ~ Sara Teasdale
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:08, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:46, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be. ~ Sara Teasdale ~
 * 3 Kalki 23:46, 7 August 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Military occupation causes terrorism. ~ Chris Eubank
 * 2 Zarbon 05:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Democracy cannot be exported with a gun. ~ Chris Eubank
 * 2 Zarbon 05:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Sleep peacefully people, there will not be a war. ~ Alija Izetbegović
 * 2 Zarbon 05:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

But the voice of anatomy, like the voice of all nature, never reaches the mental ear of the Great Commoner. It is the novel province of anatomy to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the structure, the origin and the history of man. ~ Henry Fairfield Osborn
 * 4 Fossil 21:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

This chain of human ancestors was totally unknown to Darwin. He could not have even dreamed of such a flood of proof and truth. ~ Henry Fairfield Osborn
 * 3 Fossil 21:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Care for the race, even if the individual must suffer -- this must be the keynote of our future. ~ Henry Fairfield Osborn
 * 3 Fossil 21:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)