November 8

November 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand? ~ Spider Robinson
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ~ John F. Kennedy (elected U.S. President 8 November 1960)
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2006
 * No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. ~ Bram Stoker (born 8 November 1847)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes. ~ Peter Weiss ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out Neither side is glorious On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing Not to lie under the earth but to walk upon it without crutches ~ Peter Weiss ~ (born November 8, 1916)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity. ~ Julian of Norwich
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end. ~ Julian of Norwich
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success! ~ Bram Stoker
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


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 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


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 * 2017


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 * 2018


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 * 2019


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 * 2020


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 * 2021


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 * 2022


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 * 2023


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 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: Pierre Bosquet · Robert Bulwer-Lytton · Dorothy Day · Julian of Norwich · Bram Stoker · Peter Weiss · Edmond Halley

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear ~ Peter Weiss
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:17, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

The things which must be must be for the best. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

The ages roll Forward; and forward with them draw my soul Into Time’s infinite sea. And to be glad or sad I care no more; But to have done and to have been before I cease to do and be! ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, or even 4.

It is magnificent, but it is not war; it is madness. ~ Pierre Bosquet
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It is no longer unsourced. You may recast your vote for this one. Zarbon 06:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:30, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Religion does not mean to surrender to dogmas and religious scriptures or conformity to rituals. But my religion constitutes an abiding faith in the perfect values of truth and the ceaseless attempt to realise them in the inner most part of our nature. ~ Hans Ji Maharaj
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

In this world, who you are is more important than what you are saying. ~ P. L. Deshpande
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

My whole life I have been waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. From these writers, for almost 50 years, I have received narrative, witness, companionship, sanctuary, shock, and steely strangeness; good advice, bad news, deep chords, hurtful discrepancy, and amazing grace. At an average of five books a week, not counting all those sighed at and nibbled on before they go to the Strand, I will read 13,000. Then I'm dead. Thirteen thousand in a lifetime, about as many as there are new ones published every month in this country. It's not enough, and yet rich to excess. The books we love, love us back. ~ John Leonard (recent death)
 * 4 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

I am sure that God did not intend that there be so many poor. The class structure is of our making and our consent, not His. It is the way we have arranged it, and it is up to us to change it. So we are urging revolutionary change. ~ Dorothy Day
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Like Babe Ruth predicting where his next home run would land in the stands, Halley stated flatly that the comet would return at the end of 1758, from a particular part of the sky, following a specific path. ~ Narration of Edmond Halley's predicted return of the comet which is now named after him, from the third episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) (the sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:55, 8 October 2016 (UTC) Like many scientists, Edmond Halley (born 8 November 1656) wasn't a particularly gifted writer, so we really can't honor him in a quote of the day by using his own words. He was undeniably brilliant however, and his contribution is a worthy subject for a quote of the day. I thought the creators of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey were really smart to compare him to a famous athlete like Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth's Called Shot didn't have a profound impact on the world, but Halley's application of Newtonian physics to predict the return of the comet which bears his name really did.