August 17, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Mae West (1893 – 1980):

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

and

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”

and

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945):

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

and

“When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”

and

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

and

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

and

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

and

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”

Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998):

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”

and

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

V.S. Naipaul (1930 - ):

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”

and

“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”

Kevin Rowland (1953 - ):

“These people round here

Wear beaten-down eyes sunk in smoke-dried faces

They're so resigned to what their fate is

But not us (no, never)

No, not us (no, never)

We are far too young and clever (remember)”

Jonathan Franzen (1959 - ):

“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”

and

“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”

Eric Schlosser (1959 - ):

“The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.”

and

“The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.”