Source: The Analects, Chapter IV
“I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) second president of Egypt
To his followers during the assassination attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood, as quoted in The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Context: Let them kill Nasser! What is Nasser but one among many? I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!
“…Why am I even whispering? It's not like they're actually gonna hear me.”
TotalBiscuit (1984–2018) British game commentator
WTF Is…? series, Insurgency (standalone) (January 29, 2014)
Artemus Ward (1834–1867) American writer
Artemus Ward, His Travels http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccer-eaf?id=Weaf483&tag=public&data=/www/data/eaf2/private/texts&part=0, Lecture (1865).
“I believe in you even on the morning after.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), I Believe in You
Lou Vincent (1978) New Zealand cricketer
When asked about his career and self-doubt. Quoted in [Hanging out with Lou Vincent, Michele Hewitson, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/cricket/news/article.cfm?c_id=29&objectid=10434215&pnum=3, The New Zealand Herald, 2008-06-05, 2008-06-05]
“Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.”
Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984) Polish-American mathematician
Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 10, Back At Los Alamos, p. 208
Context: I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.
Mark Heard (1951–1992) American musician and record producer
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
“It is difficult to get a hearing from busy men for even a great new truth.”
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952) English neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient
[408247, October 1927, Listerian Oration: 1927 (delivered at the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, Toronto, June 18, 1927), Canadian Medical Association Journal, 17, 10 Pt 2, 1255–1263, 20316567, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC408247/] quote from p. 1261; This oration sponsored by the Lister Club of the Canadian Medical Association should not be confused with the Lister Oration sponsored by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
KT Tunstall (1975) Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
"Universe & U".
Eye to the Telescope (2004)
