September 26

September 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * We have a firm commitment to NATO; we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe; we are a part of Europe. ~ Dan Quayle
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~ Jonathan Swift
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed. ~ T. S. Eliot (born 26 September 1888)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * All is always now. Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Will not stay still. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Whatever we inherit from the fortunate We have taken from the defeated What they had to leave us — a symbol: A symbol perfected in death. And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well By the purification of the motive In the ground of our beseeching. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2011
 * Quick now, here, now, always — A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flames are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki for the date of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, 2016


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:


 * We shall not cease from exploration. And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets
 * Used on 3 October 2003, selected by Nanobug


 * Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ~ T. S. Eliot ~
 * used 15 August 2004, selected by Kalki


 * Men learn little from others' experience. But in the life of one man, never the same time returns. ~ T. S. Eliot, in Murder in the Cathedral
 * used 4 January 2007, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions
All that I can hope to make you understand is only events: not what has happened. And people to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. ~ T. S. Eliot (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged. We have seen many such simple currents soon lost in the sand; and novelty is better than repetition. Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. ~ T. S. Eliot
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC) but might eventually give it a 3 or a 4, but ONLY if truncated to remove the initial "Yet".
 * 2 Zarbon 23:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

If you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail. ~ Robert Kagan
 * 4 Zarbon 04:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:45, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:19, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; For you will heap burning coals on his head. ~ Proverbs 25:21,22
 * 3 Tab1of2 21:54, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) but this has no clear relation to the date.
 * 2 N6n 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet's difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can be isolated in order to be enjoyed. Whereas if we approach a poet without this prejudice we shall often find that not only the best, but the most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously. And I do not mean the impressionable period of adolescence, but the period of full maturity. ~ T. S. Eliot ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

''Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets'' ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholy new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

''Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging; You are not those who saw the harbour Receding, or those who will disembark. Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets'' ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

''Let me disclose the gifts reserved for age To set a crown upon your lifetime's effort. First, the cold fricton of expiring sense Without enchantment, offering no promise But bitter tastelessness of shadow fruit As body and soul begin to fall asunder. Second, the conscious impotence of rage At human folly, and the laceration Of laughter at what ceases to amuse. And last, the rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done, and been; the shame Of things ill done and done to others' harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue. Then fools' approval stings, and honour stains. From wrong to wrong the exasperated spirit Proceeds, unless restored by that refining fire Where you must move in measure, like a dancer. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets'' ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

''We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them. The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree Are of equal duration. A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets'' ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

''And indeed there will be time To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair— ... Do I dare Disturb the universe?'' (Eliot)
 * 3 N6n 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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