December 29

December 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * I will make company with creators, with harvesters, with rejoicers; I will show them the rainbow and the stairway to the Superman. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005 & 2006 (mistakenly used twice)
 * If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ Andrew Johnson (born 29 December 1808)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2007
 * For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man. ~ Pablo Casals
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke (Date of death)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2010
 * Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ~ William Ewart Gladstone (born December 29, 1809)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2011
 * Yes, the springtime was in need of you. Often a star waited for you to espy it and sense its light. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant past, or as you walked below an open window, a violin gave itself to your hearing. All this was trust. But could you manage it? Were you not always distraught by expectation, as if all this were announcing the arrival of a beloved? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2015


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; lines from Murder in the Cathedral for the death date of Thomas Becket


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I care not what happens when I am dead and gone. ~ Madame de Pompadour
 * 2 Zarbon 06:29, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 4, but I would prefer the original phraseAprès nous, le déluge.After us, the deluge.A very famous quote, also attributed to Louis XV Ficaia (talk) 09:14, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Though life seems painful, at the same time it is wonderful. ~ Ritsuko Okazaki
 * 3 Zarbon 06:29, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

''The church shall be open, even to our enemies. We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance, Not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast And have conquered.'' ~ T. S. Eliot ~
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:05, 20 December 2012 (UTC) lines from Murder in the Cathedral for the death date of Thomas Becket

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything. ~ William Gaddis Agape Agape (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

He stood there unsteady in the cold, mumbling syllables which almost resolved into her name, as though he could recall, and summon back, a time before death entered the world, before accident, before magic, and before magic despaired, to become religion. ~ William Gaddis The Recognitions
 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. ~ William Gaddis The Recognitions
 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. ~ Mary Tyler Moore (goodreads author quotes)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC) — but tempering my ranking, as I have not yet located the original source of this, but the earliest reference I have found indicates it to be a line of her character "Mary Richards" in her show, rather than something originating with her personally.

Amidst the early morning dew Walking across the greenery And in the evening that is scary While taking a breath, Oh, flower, I listen to your song, Oh flower, I defeat your love. ~ Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa
 * 3 tending to 4--Nvvchar (talk) 05:37, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:37, 27 December 2013 (UTC) with lean toward 3.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:21, 28 December 2021 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:21, 28 December 2021 (UTC)


 * A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. ~ Benjamin Disraeli on William Ewart Gladstone
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 09:14, 3 May 2024 (UTC)