October 2

October 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ~ Mae West
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. ~ Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone
 * proposed by Kalki The first episode of The Twilight Zone, "Where is Everybody?" aired on 2 October 1959.

''A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.'' ~ Wallace Stevens ~
 * 2006
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * If there must be a god in the house, must be, Saying things in the room and on the stair, Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor, Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost  Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly. ~ Wallace Stevens ~ (born 2 October 1879)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * I am one of you and being one of you Is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary angel of earth, Since, in my sight, you see the earth again, Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings, Like watery words awash; like meanings said By repetitions of half-meanings. ~ Wallace Stevens ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. ~ Ferdinand Foch (born 2 October 1851)
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least. ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (born 2 October 1869)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~ Ferdinand Foch
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2014


 * proposed by Nvvchar


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2022


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
We do not choose our concerns. ~ Graham Greene (born 2 October 1904)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 03:45, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ~ Wallace Stevens
 * 3 Kalki 00:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 03:45, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ~ Ferdinand Foch (born October 2)
 * 3 because only those who are inexperienced in the art of war would boast about it. Zarbon 17:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. ~ Ferdinand Foch (born October 2)
 * 3 because the man who has the will will find the way. Zarbon 17:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

You can’t conceive, nor can I, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. ~ Graham Greene
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ~ Graham Greene
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~ Graham Greene
 * 2 Zarbon 17:53, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ~ Graham Greene
 * 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Catholics and communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate...if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? ~ Graham Greene
 * 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but perhaps trimmed a bit to just:
 * If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?


 * 1 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Cynicism is cheap — you can buy it at any Monoprix store — it's built into all poor-quality goods. ~ Graham Greene
 * 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost. ~ Graham Greene
 * 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians — it's an honourable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed — that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men. ~ Graham Greene
 * 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us. ~ Wallace Stevens
 * 3 Kalki 02:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The imagination is one of the forces of nature. ~ Wallace Stevens
 * 3 Kalki 02:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite. ~ Wallace Stevens
 * 3 Kalki 02:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


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