June 23, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations! 

Alan Turing (1912 – 1954):

“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”

and

“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.”

and

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

Michael Shaara (1928 – 1988):

“Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.”

and

“In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.”

Richard Bach (1936 - ):

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”

and

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

and

“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”

and

“Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

and

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”

Joss Whedon (1964 - ):

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”

and

“Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.”

and

“So, why do I write these strong female characters?

Because you’re still asking me that question.”

and

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.”

and

“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”

and

“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”

and

“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”