May 22, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily quotations...

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930):

“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.”

and

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

and

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

and

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”

Peter Matthiessen (1927 – 2014):

“When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.”

Harvey Milk (1930 – 1978):

“It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.”

and

“I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.”

and

“Hope will never be silent.”

Morrissey (1959 - ):

“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”

and

“It's so easy to laugh

It's so easy to hate

It takes strength to be gentle and kind”

and

“I am human and I need to be loved,

just like everybody else does.”