May 10

May 10 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other. ~ P. L. Travers
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. ~ Bono (born 10 May 1960)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. ~ Karl Barth (born 10 May 1886)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. ~ Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, (d. 10 May 1696)
 * proposed by Aphaia


 * 2008
 * We're one, but we're not the same We get to carry each other, carry each other... one. ~ Bono ~ (Born 10 May 1960)
 * proposed by Aphaia


 * 2009
 * Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story. ~ John Crowley
 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2010
 * Touch me Take me to that other place Reach me I know I'm not a hopeless case What you don't have you don't need it What you don't know you can feel it somehow ~ Bono ~
 * proposed by Aphaia


 * 2011
 * I do not preach universal salvation, what I say is that I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment. ~ Karl Barth
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2013


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki, for Mother's Day in the U.S., 2015.


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; DOB + recent remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ~ Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, (d. 10 May 1696)
 * 3 --Aphaia 05:27, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:07, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Since La Bruyère was born on August 16, I would propose that this quote be transferred to that date. - InvisibleSun 15:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain. ~ Karl Barth (born May 10)
 * 3 because the image of God is not visible to the physical man...for the man of the material world is blinded by illusion. Zarbon 05:21, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 03:36, 30 April 2010 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 02:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC) the statement is true, but without greater context can easily be misinterpreted to mean things Barth had not intended which are false.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Eternity is here (in the stable at Bethlehem and on the cross of Calvary) in time. ~ Karl Barth
 * 3 Kalki 09:22, 9 May 2009 (UTC) (though this might be better around Christmas time or on a Good Friday)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:31, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

[The Harvard Observatory Computers included]  Annie Jump Cannon, the leader of the team [who eventually] catalogued a quarter of a million stars, [and]  Henrietta Swan Leavitt [who]  discovered the law that astronomers still use more than a century later to measure the distances to the stars. . . . [Cannon provided classification data to Cecilia Payne, whose]  "Stellar Atmospheres" is widely regarded as the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy. ~ In commemoration of the May 10, 1900 birth of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, from the eighth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 23:58, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2017 (UTC) without any disregard of the worth of any of those mentioned, I simply believe that this is a rather low quality statement for use as QOTD.


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 2, with a lean toward 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:23, 10 May 2021 (UTC), (this is the trimmed-out remainder and lead portion of a partially-used previous suggestion first provided on 9 May 2018, and the other portion used 10 May 2021).


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)