The following people celebrate a birthday today:
Jorge Amado (1912 – 2001):
“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises.”
and
“Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.”
and
“Life was good, one had only to live it.”
Laurence Binyon (1869 – 1943):
“They shall grow not old, as we
that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor
the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning,
We will remember them.”
Herbert Hoover (1874 – 1964):
“They are beginning to realize
that words without action are the assassins of idealism. On the other side,
they are equally disgusted with seeking for power by destructive criticism,
demagoguery, specious promises and sham.”
and
“Older men declare war. But it
is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the
tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.”
and
“Being a politician is a poor
profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.”
and
“When there is a lack of honor
in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.”
and
“About the time we can make the
ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
Barry Unsworth (1930 – 2012):
“Nothing a man suffers will
prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the
way.”
and
“Love does not stand still, as
everyone knows; it is always adding to its own shape whether by advance or
retreat. Wounds can be absorbed, but only like elements embodied in a story;
they are always there, part of the meaning.”
and
“Wickedness is too common in
the world
for us to think much of why and
wherefore.
It is more natural to ask about
the rarer thing
and wonder why people sometimes
do good.”
Mark Doty (1953 - ):
“Love, I think, is a gateway to
the world, not an escape from it.”
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