July 22

July 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse. ~ Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. ~ John Howe
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!  ~ Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (born 22 July 1849)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. We thought the long train would run to the end of Time. We thought the light would increase. Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it. Now the boar and the asp have power in our time. Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid. Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men. ~ Stephen Vincent Benét ~ (born 22 July 1898)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways, The smooth appeasing compromises of time, Which are King Herod and King Herod's men, Always and always. Life can be Lost without vision but not lost by death, Lost by not caring, willing, going on Beyond the ragged edge of fortitude To something more — something no man has ever seen. ~ Stephen Vincent Benét ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. ~ Emma Lazarus ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * There was sadness in being a man, but it was a proud thing too. And he showed what the pride of it was till you couldn't help feeling it. Yes, even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it. And he wasn't pleading for any one person any more, though his voice rang like an organ. He was telling the story and the failures and the endless journey of mankind. They got tricked and trapped and bamboozled, but it was a great journey. And no demon that was ever foaled could know the inwardness of it — it took a man to do that. … His voice could search the heart, and that was his gift and his strength. And to one, his voice was like the forest and its secrecy, and to another like the sea and the storms of the sea; and one heard the cry of his lost nation in it, and another saw a little harmless scene he hadn't remembered for years. But each saw something. And when Dan'l Webster finished he didn't know whether or not he'd saved Jabez Stone. But he knew he'd done a miracle. For the glitter was gone from the eyes of the judge and jury, and, for the moment, they were men again, and knew they were men. ~ Stephen Vincent Benét
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * There was no pain when I awoke, No pain at all. Rest, like a goad, Spurred my eyes open — and light broke Upon them like a million swords: And she was there. There are no words. Heaven is for a moment's span. And ever. ~ Stephen Vincent Benét ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Do not disturb my circles! ~ Archimedes
 * proposed by MosheZadka in honor of Pi Approximation Day.


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


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


 * 2024 : 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
It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it. ~ Tom Robbins (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 05:12, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤ ☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 0 Ilovemydoodle (Not a sockpuppet) (talk / e-mail) 01:22, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Your friend insults the homeless by giving them no credit for having made the decisions that shaped their lives, and demeans them further by declaring them powerless to alter their situations. There’re many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they’re victims. ~ Tom Robbins
 * 3 bystander (talk) 05:12, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤ ☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 0.5 Ilovemydoodle (Not a sockpuppet) (talk / e-mail) 01:22, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Children of the future Age

Reading this indignant page,

Know that in a former time

Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime. ~ William Blake JJLiu112 (talk) 01:06, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Good quote, but I do not see any relevance to the date. – Ilovemydoodle (Not a sockpuppet) (talk / e-mail) 01:11, 21 July 2022 (UTC)