Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
As quoted in "Scores of musicians urge Russia to release Pussy Riot" at Amnesty International (22 July 2013) http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/scores-musicians-urge-russia-release-pussy-riot-2013-07-22
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
25 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now (1 October 2009) http://imaginepeace.com/news/archives/5865
“The opposite of love is fear, not hate.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
2 July 2010.
Twitter messages
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American journalist
quoted by Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times, Saturday, October 7, 2006
Thomas Pynchon book V.
Source: V. (1963), Chapter Seven, Part I
Context: Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp, woof, or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of existing in one gather it is assumed there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles each of which had come to assume greater importance than the weave itself and destroy any continuity. Thus it is that we are charmed by the funny-looking automobiles of the '30's, the curious fashions of the '20's, the particular moral habits of our grandparents. We produce and attend musical comedies about them and are conned into a false memory, a phony nostalgia about what they were. We are accordingly lost to any sense of continuous tradition. Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see.
Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) King of France and Navarra, from 1643 to 1715
J'ai failli attendre.
Regarded as apocryphal by E. Fournier, L'Esprit dans l'Histoire (4th ed. 1884). ch.xlviii
Disputed
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book I, 1.13-[1] (See also: Karl Marx, Grundrisse, Introduction p. 7)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
“I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire…”
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book III, 3.37-[1] (Speech of Cleon..).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Variant translation: "...the search for truth strains the patience of most people, who would rather believe the first things that come to hand." Translation by Paul Woodruff.
Book I, 1.20-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
“Mein Führer, who commands The Ninth Army, you or I?”
Walter Model (1891–1945) German field marshal
To Adolf Hitler on 20 January 1942, Wolfsschanze. Quoted in "Generalfeldmarschall Model Biographie" - Page 115 - by Walter Göriltz - 2012
Marcello Mastroianni (1924–1996) Italian actor
In 1977, to Dick Cavett while accompanied by Sophia Loren; quoted by French Film Stars Database http://hri.shef.ac.uk/filmstars/starsDetail.php?intID=978&strRecord=Newspaper_Article, which sources it to his obituary in The Guardian
“There is no death without life. Therefore, death depends entirely on life.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Attributed on the internet but not found in print prior to an attribution in Aero Digest, Vols. 58–59, 1949, p. 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=q2ofAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Life+is+simple%22+but+we+insist+on+making+it+complicated&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Life+is+simple%22+ <br class="br">Misattributed, Not Chinese
“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Ayrton Senna (1960–1994) Brazilian racing driver
Interview, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuJL8fKtTj8
