Source: Love and Friendship
“I do not choose to run for President in 1928.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
Statement to reporters (2 August 1927); cited in Bartlett's Famous Quotations, 16th ed. (1992).
1920s
“What you gonna do?
Time is running out on you!
Anyway you choose
Anyway you're gonna lose…”
Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist
Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Context: His mother had often said, "When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action." She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) Swedish painter
in original language - German: Warum, die Frag' ist oft zu mir ergangen / Wählst du zum Gegenstand der Malerei / So oft den Tod, Vergänglichkeit und Grab? / Um ewig einst zu leben / Muss man sich oft dem Tod ergeben.
Quote c. 1812; from Caspar David Friedrich, William Vaughn; London: Tate Gallery, 1972, p. 16–17
1794 - 1840
“Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker”
Grant Morrison (1960) writer
Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum
“I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!”
Kathrine Switzer (1947) American distance runner
Source: Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden (1864–1937) British politician
BBC radio broadcast (17 October 1931)
