March 9

March 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * People often say to me, "I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it," and I am apt to reply, "I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it." ~ Alan Watts
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! ~ Yuri Gagarin (born 9 March 1934)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Some choices will choose you. How you face these choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life. ~ Dana Reeve (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. ~ Mickey Spillane (born 9 March 1918)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ~ Mickey Spillane
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2009
 * A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. ~ Shashi Tharoor
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it! ~ Yuri Gagarin
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind; how the observation of last year seems childish, superficial; how this year — even this week — even with this new phrase — it seems to us that we have grown to a new maturity. It may be a fallacious persuasion, but at least it is stimulating, and so long as it persists, one does not stagnate. ~ Vita Sackville-West
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * I would have these good people to recollect, that the laws of this country hold out to foreigners an offer of all that liberty of the press which Americans enjoy, and that, if this liberty be abridged, by whatever means it may be done, the laws and the constitution, and all together, is a mere cheat; a snare to catch the credulous and enthusiastic of every other nation; a downright imposition on the world. ~ William Cobbett
 * proposed by bystander


 * 2013


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2014


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2021


 * proposed by Pithy Francoln, as the anniversary of this introduction to the premiere episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014), sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980).


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks in the close of the State of the Union address.


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
You can figure things out as quickly as I can, but you haven't got the ways and means of doing the dirty work. That's where I come in. You'll be right behind me every inch of the way, but when the pinch comes I'll get shoved aside and you slap the cuffs on. That is, if you can shove me aside. I don't think you can. ~ Mickey Spillane
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. ~ Juliette Binoche (born 9 March 1964)
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC) I might rank this a 4 if a definite published source can be found for it.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I looked and looked but I didn't see God. ~ Yuri Gagarin
 * 3 because sometimes God need not be found by eyes, even when floating in outer space, through the eyes of an astronaut. Zarbon 15:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC) no strong desire to use this one, and the accuracy of it has been disputed.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. ~ William Cobbett (born 9 March 1763), Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796)
 * 3 UDScott 15:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 17:34, 3 March 2010 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. ~ Luis Barragán
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red: Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled. ~ William Warner (birth unknown/date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Gravitation is the only logical factor a sculptor has to contend with. ~ David Smith
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me. ~ Bobby Fischer
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3,5 DanielTom (talk) 20:32, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination. ~ Shashi Tharoor
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Dear Mum, I know you're always there To help and guide me with all your care, You nursed and fed me and made me strong To face the world and all its wrong. ~ Bobby Sands
 * 3 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. ~ William Cobbett
 * 3 bystander (talk) 22:50, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 16:36, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 Khannaford 23:52, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

[http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey/videos/science-as-a-candle-in-the-darkness/ What Cosmos has, at its heart, is hope. It's about the future we could have if we get our act together.] - Ann Druyan, co-writer with Carl Sagan for the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980) and a co-writer, executive producer and director for the sequel series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (which premiered on March 9, 2014).
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:44, 19 October 2016 (UTC) If any of these three semi-promotional videos for Cosmos: ASO which I've listed on this date are used, I think it should be the President's.
 * The quote by Obama has now been used, on 2021·03·09. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

[http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey/videos/the-legacy-of-cosmos/ We've reached a point in time where we've gotten a little lax with our enthusiasm about science and our thirst for knowledge. . . . I hope that this Cosmos can instigate a reawakening of the same enthusiasm for science that the original Cosmos brought.] - Seth MacFarlane, executive producer for the science documentary television series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (which premiered on March 9, 2014).
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:44, 19 October 2016 (UTC) If any of these three semi-promotional videos for Cosmos: ASO which I've listed on this date are used, I think it should be the President's.
 * The quote by Obama has now been used, on 2021·03·09. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:27, 9 March 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:27, 9 March 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:35, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale, nous n’en sortirons que par la force.We are here by the will of the nation, and we shall not leave except we are driven out by force.
 * Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 03:39, 11 June 2024 (UTC) could also run on June 23