June 10

June 10 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ~ Ronald Reagan (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony and even justice. ~ Saul Bellow (born 10 June 1915)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * All that you see has appeared because of Love. All shines from Love, All pulses with Love, All flows from Love — No, once again, all is Love! ~ Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (born 10 June 1213)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. ~ Saul Bellow
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. ~ E. O. Wilson
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see. ~ William Ellery Channing ~ (born June 10)
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * Apparently the rise of consciousness is linked to certain kinds of privation. It is the bitterness of self-consciousness that we knowers know best. Critical of the illusions that sustained mankind in earlier times, this self-consciousness of ours does little to sustain us now. The question is: which is disenchanted, the world itself or the consciousness we have of it? ~ Saul Bellow
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2011
 * Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. ~ Maurice Sendak
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012
 * You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens. ~ Thelonious Monk
 * selected by


 * 2013


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2014


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2015


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2016


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2017


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ~ Saul Bellow
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:48, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 17:44, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 09:51, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Writers, poets, painters, musicians, philosophers, political thinkers, to name only a few of the categories affected, must woo their readers, viewers, listeners, from distraction. To this we must add, for simple realism demands it, that these same writers, painters, etc., are themselves the children of distraction. As such, they are peculiarly qualified to approach the distracted multitudes. They will have experienced the seductions as well as the destructiveness of the forces we have been considering here. This is the destructive element in which we do not need to be summoned to immerse ourselves, for we were born to it. ~ Saul Bellow
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:48, 9 June 2007 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 09:51, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things. ~ Maurice Sendak (born June 10, 1928)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 I liked the wild things books when I was young. Zarbon 14:58, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:41, 5 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 17:44, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 09:51, 9 June 2022 (UTC)