November 23

November 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ~ Václav Havel
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. ~ Areopagitica by John Milton (published 23 November 1644)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2006
 * We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ Thornton Wilder (quote for US Thanksgiving Day)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today. I can't control my destiny. I trust my soul. My only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today. ~ Jonathan Larson in "Another Day" from Rent ~
 * proposed by UDScott (initially proposed in 2005 for movie's opening date, but the John Milton quote was ranked higher)


 * 2008
 * Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play on the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read! ~ Alfonso X of Castile
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki for the 50th anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who, first broadcast on 23 November 1963.


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki in regard to the anniversary of the publishing of Areopagitica


 * 2018


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2019


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2020


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2021


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; final scheduled White House press briefing before his retirement.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; for the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Service is service, wherever it occurred. The defense of the fatherland is no small thing. ~ Rodion Malinovsky (born November 23)
 * 3 because this defines military principle and ideal. A loyal soldier is the same the world over, he is the man I adore and respect most of all. Zarbon 17:01, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Gates of Hell - Page 343 by Harrison Evans Salisbury - 1976
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:33, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. ~ Alfonso X of Castile
 * 3 Zarbon 13:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:33, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Born a saint, die a sinner, thats the way it's got ta be! ~ Billy the Kid
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Tell me thou all pervading mind, When I this life forsake, Must ev'ry tender tie unbind, Each sweet connection break? ~ Ann Eliza Bleecker
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:33, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Though such the darkness of my soul, Not such the calmness there; But waves of guilt tumultuous roll 'Midst billows of despair. ~ Ann Eliza Bleecker
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:33, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past. ~ Gloria Whelan (dob) (goodreads)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:56, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:55, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight. ~ Nirad C. Chaudhuri (dob) The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (goodreads)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 19:02, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:55, 22 November 2014 (UTC)