Variant: I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
As quoted in The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America (2002) by James MacGregor Burns ad Susan Dunn, p. 563
Variant: I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Letter to Dr. David Feuchtwang (1931), as quoted in Freud and Moses: The Long Journey Home (1990) by Emanuel Rice, p. 25
1930s
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“I the Mountain take,
Bearing my aged Father on my Back.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
Interview with Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio (2 May 2002)
2000s
