Source: The Color of Magic
“She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Remark upon learning of the death of Eleanor Roosevelt, drawing upon the motto of the Christopher Society: "It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness." ; quoted in The New York Times (8 November 1962)
“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Lanterns and Lances (1961), p. 146; also misquoted as "There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
From Lanterns and Lances
“It was not worth shedding so much blood for such a trifle!”
Louis de Potter (1786–1859) pamphleteer, politician (1786-1859)
Source: Belgium since the Revolution of 1830, Page 198. https://be1830.be/onewebmedia/Belgi%C3%AB_sedert_de_omwenteling_in_1830%20I.pdf Louis de Potter, who would have preferred Belgium to become a republic after the revolution of 1830, is disappointed when the National Congress opts for a hereditary monarchy instead.
Thomas Pynchon book Against the Day
Source: Against the Day (2006), p. 65
Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) American sociologist
Source: The structure of social action (1937), p. 17
John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer
October 30
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) British American-born writer
“English Aphorists,” pp. 102-103
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)
Thomas Flanagan (political scientist) (1944) author, academic, and political activist
Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 10, What Have We Learned?, p. 170 (Last text line...).
“Where still the branches guarded the skin of ruddy hue, like to illumined cloud or to Iris when she ungirds her robe and glides to meet glowing Phoebus.”
Cuius adhuc rutilam servabant bracchia pellem,
nubibus accensis similem aut cum veste recincta
labitur ardenti Thaumantias obvia Phoebo.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book VIII, Lines 114–116
