Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Of Sir Richard Jebb, Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties (1956)
1950s
Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty
Context: Silly girl, silver girl,
Draw the mirror toward you;
Time who makes the years to whirl
Adorned as he adored you.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Of Sir Richard Jebb, Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties (1956)
1950s
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVII: On Taking One’s Own Life
“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
II, 7
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II
Lizabeth Scott (1922–2015) American actress and singer
Colker, David (February 6, 2015). " From the Archives: Lizabeth Scott dies at 92; sultry leading woman of film noir http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-lizabeth-scott-20150206-story.html". Los Angeles Times
“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things
Source: The God of Small Things
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Variant: That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature
Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 1, Nature <br class="br">Context: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! <br class="br">Context: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
Leó Szilárd (1898–1964) Physicist and biologist
As quoted in "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace", LIFE magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 79