Today is the birthday of the following people:
Jon Stewart (1962 - ):
“If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.”
and
“As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.”
and
“The reason I don’t worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I’ll take those odds every day.”
William Blake (1757 –
1827):
“If a thing loves, it
is infinite.”
and
“The tree which moves
some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in
the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see
nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination
itself.”
Nancy Mitford (1904 –
1973):
“The trouble is that
people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They
are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason
of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they
blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what
generally starts the trouble.”
and
“To fall in love you
have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.”
Alan Lightman (1948 -
):
“The tragedy of this
world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The
tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot
be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck
alone.”
and
“Is it possible for a
person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by
its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater
and a replenishing by rain?”
Randy Newman (1943 -
):
"Human kindness is
overflowing,
and I think it's
gonna rain today."
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