“Like those dreams that have pleased us. They escape us and we vainly try to hold onto them.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
The Crisis. <br class="br"> Artemus Ward, His Book http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccer-eaf?id=Weaf482&tag=public&data=/www/data/eaf2/private/texts&part=0 (1862)
“Like those dreams that have pleased us. They escape us and we vainly try to hold onto them.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense
Interview with Steve Croft, Infinity CBS Radio Connect (14 November 2002) https://web.archive.org/web/20031217182208/http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2002/t11152002_t1114rum.html <br class="br">2000s
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) French painter and writer
two short quotes of Picabia, in 'A Paris painter', by Hapgood, published in 'The Globe and Commercial Advertiser', 20 Febr. 1913, p. 8
1910's
Bassel Khartabil (1981–2015) free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner
Tweet Dec 16, 2011, 6:06PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/147860108393725952 at Twitter.com
“Nature no longer entertains us when conserving it becomes inconvenient.”
Reed Noss (1952)
[Toward a Pro‐Life Politics, Conservation Biology, 15, 4, August 2001, 827–828, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.015004827.x]
“The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!”
Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974) Marshal of the Soviet Union
Quoted in "A History of the Modern Age" - Page 175 - by Albert Fried, Julian K. Prescott - United States - 1971
Cindy Sheehan (1957) American antiwar activist
media conference call http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/215159/cindy-sheenan-without-internet-u-s-would-be-fascist-state/byron-york, August 11, 2005. <br class="br">2005