September 8

September 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * Dare to be naïve. ~ Buckminster Fuller
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. ~ George Eliot
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. ~ David O. McKay, (born 8 September 1873)
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2006
 * Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. ~ Peter Sellers
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything. ~ Luciano Pavarotti (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. ~ Siegfried Sassoon (born September 8, 1886)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * What voice revisits me this night? What face To my heart’s room returns? From the perpetual silence where the grace Of human sainthood burns Hastes he once more to harmonise and heal? I know not. Only I feel His influence undiminished And his life’s work, in me and many, unfinished. ~ Siegfried Sassoon ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * Oh, he tells me tears are something to hide And something to fear And I try so hard to keep it inside So no one can hear.  "Hush, hush, keep it down now. Voices carry."  ~ Aimee Mann ~ (born 8 September 1960)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle! ~ Peter Sellers
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 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 DanielTom


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live. ~ Peter Sellers (date of birth)
 * 0 Kalki 20:49, 7 September 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 16:28, 7 September 2005 (UTC) I would rank this higher, with a 3, or even a 4, but it is not sourced, and I have not yet found much to go on definitely tying it or anything like it to Sellers.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 15:39, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 22:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

''I look in your eyes I realize what you've sold me is love in a vacuum. Love in a vacuum.'' ~ Aimee Mann ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:59, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:24, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:50, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

It was imperative to strike before we were struck by this overwhelming force in a hand-to-hand fight, which we could not probably have withstood or survived. At that crisis, I ordered the bayonet. The word was enough. ~ Joshua Chamberlain (born 8 September 1828)
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 20:41, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:50, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Who shuns offence and holds with neither side, Who dreads the deep and never dares to swim, Who fears to trip and never tries to run, May yet in walking stumble.
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Life is glad life when led by laughing hours, With joys of love or spoils of battle gilt; When darkness steals the day and shuts the flowers,  Our arms are shattered and the wine is spilt, We rise as grateful guests from banquet gay, Resign the wreath, and toss the glass away.
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Death is dark death when slurred with terrors vain: Whether blest isles or fields Elysian wait, Or all is silent o'er the circling main,  We know not ever; but we conquer Fate, Assail the mansions of the Gods, and claim The crown of valour, in a deathless name.
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Tis well to live for glory, home, and land; And, when these fail us, it is well to die. The latest freedom never fails our hand,  From scornful Earth, on wings of scorn, to fly; When Life grows heavy. Death remains, the door To dreamless rest beside the Stygian shore.
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)


 * The portals open to our meteor way: A red dawn breaks the shadows of the hour. We leave the bitter cup of alien sway,  To hinds that crouch beneath the heels of power. Ours the triumphal path, the hero's right; And Death hangs o'er us like a starry night!
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Greece and the world are Rome's: her stars prevail; But our complexion shifts not with the gale. When ONE against a NATION plays his life, He bears from hosts the glory of the strife: Until the hero's godlike race be run I shall be loyal to the setting sun.
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)