December 30

December 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. ~ David Sedaris
 * selected by Basil Fawlty


 * 2004
 * I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ~
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005 & 2006 (mistakenly used twice)
 * If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too... If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son! ~ Rudyard Kipling ~ (born 30 December 1865)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2007
 * The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest. ~ Romain Rolland (died 30 December 1944)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2008
 * It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. ~ Romain Rolland
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it — that is true civilization. ~ Hideki Tojo
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. ~ Romain Rolland
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * I am not all that is. I am Life fighting Nothingness. I am not Nothingness, I am the Fire which burns in the Night. I am not the Night. I am the eternal Light; I am not an eternal destiny soaring above the fight. I am free Will which struggles eternally. Struggle and burn with Me. ~ Romain Rolland
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard of his recent death.


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of his recent death.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on a major historical decision.


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. ~ Rudyard Kipling, born that day
 * 2 ~ UDScott 15:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 - --Mister Six 11:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 3, including the expansion as shown below. - InvisibleSun 22:12, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 because united they stand and divided they fall. The wolf is a grandiose example, and happens to be one of my most favorite animals, if not my most favorite. Furthermore, the wolf pack ideology is a powerful one. Zarbon 20:57, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC) but I would also probably eventually rank it 3 or maybe even a 4 with the use of these complete stanzas:
 * Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. ~ Hideki Tojo
 * 3 Zarbon 16:25, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:18, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup
 * 2 Zarbon 16:25, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:18, 29 December 2008 (UTC)