Source: Ender's Game
Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist
From a speech entitled Confronting Empire http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=2919 given at the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre, 28 January 2003 <br class="br">Speeches <br class="br">Variant: Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. <br class="br">Source: War Talk
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
Dana Reeve (1961–2006) Actress, singer, activist
Middlebury College Address (2004)
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"A Tribe to Eban C. Ingersoll" (1879) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38812/38812-h/38812-h.htm <br class="br">Context: Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud — and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
Incidentals (1904)
Context: Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
We may pull apart the petals of a rose or make chemical analysis of its perfume, but the mystic beauty of its form and odor is still a secret, locked in to where we have no keys.
