Clive Staples Lewis book The Pilgrim's Regress
Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?
Pilgrim’s Regress 186–187
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
Clive Staples Lewis book The Pilgrim's Regress
Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?
Pilgrim’s Regress 186–187
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
Don Cherry (1934) ice hockey coach, television commentator
In the "Crease Crashers" segment of the <i>Rock'Em Sock'Em Six</i> hockey highlights video.
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)
Source: The New Ethics (1907), The Perils of Over-population, pp. 149–150
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 11, p. 179
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Gitlow v. People of New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925) (dissenting).
1920s
“He scores goals like runs in cricket.”
Dhyan Chand (1905–1979) Indian field hockey player
Don Bradman commented on Dhyan Chand's legendary skill in scoring goals in [Hem Shanker Ray, Symbols of India, http://books.google.com/books?id=FPJCrUUu4BUC&pg=PT329, Rupa Publications, 978-81-291-2349-7, 329–]
Giannina Braschi book United States of Banana
United States of Banana (2011)
Thomas Weber (historian) (1974) German historian
Source: Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi (2017), p. 49
Roy Jenkins (1920–2003) British politician, historian and writer
The Labour Case (Penguin, 1959), p. 146
1950s
Harold Wilson (1916–1995) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton (12 December 1964), quoted in The Times (14 December 1964), p. 14
Prime Minister
Douglas Murray (1979) British political commentator and far-right activist
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)
“Fact is, you work too hard…the universe won’t run down if you don’t wind it.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Star Beast
Source: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 12, “Concerning Pidgie-Widgie” (p. 185)
Robert A. Heinlein book Elsewhen
Frost snorted. “I certainly do—if he has observed it with his own eyes and ears, or gets it from a source known to be credible. A fact doesn’t have to be understood to be true. Sure, any reasonable mind wants explanations, but it’s silly to reject facts that don’t fit your philosophy.”
Elsewhen (pp. 161-162)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
6 August 1947,. (Hindustan Times, 8-8-1947, CWoMG, vol. LXXXIX, p. 11) Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2018). Why I killed the Mahatma: Uncovering Godse's defence. New Delhi : Rupa, 2018. App. 4
1940s
Rahul Guhathakurta Indian consultant
In his book, The Age of Blockchain: A Collection of Articles, as quoted in factbox on blockchain http://news.upu.int/no_cache/nd/factbox-on-blockchain/, Universal Postal Union on August 2, 2018.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928–1979) Fourth President and ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan
Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Ali Bhutto in Karachi, April 1972
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) American politician
Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC (23 February 2019) <br class="br">Twitter Quotes (2019), February 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) American politician
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her First Weeks In Washington, The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2019/01/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-podcast/ (28 January 2019) <br class="br">Quotes (2019)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) American politician
Twitter post, https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1079052935483609090 (29 December 2018) <br class="br">Twitter Quotes (2018)
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Broadcast (18 March 1947), quoted in The Times (19 March 1947), p. 4
Prime Minister
Fredric Brown book The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 230)
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir https://books.google.com/books?id=eFTh3OqjASkC&pg=PA192 (2011), pp. 192–194 <br class="br">2010s
Jussie Smollett (1982) American actor, singer, director and photographer
11 January 2018 https://twitter.com/JussieSmollett/status/951681671027404800, also regarding Donald Trump
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1962, Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York (549)
Shrikant Talageri (1958) Indian author
The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis (2000), Chapter 9 : Michael Witzel - An Examination of Western Vedic Scholarship
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
"Industrial Unionism" (1905), Eugene Debs Speaks
Michael Gove (1967) British politician
Michael Gove and Theresa May head five-way Conservative race https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36671336, BBC News, 30 June 2016 <br class="br">2016
L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer
Source: Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left', (2019), p. 333
Sabine Hossenfelder (1976) German theoretical physicist
Lost in Math, Chapter 4, p. 78, 2018 hardcover ed.
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (2018)
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the centenary dinner of the City of London Conservative and Unionist Association (2 July 1936), quoted in Service of Our Lives (1937), pp. 44-45.
1936
James Wilson (1742–1798) one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independe…
as quoted in The Works of the Honourable James Wilson (Philadelphia: Bronson and Chauncey, 1804), Vol. I, pp. 106 & 103-105.
Dick Stuart (1932–2002) American baseball player
On the walk-off home run—hit with pinch hitter Stuart on-deck—that ended the 1960 World Series; as quoted in "A Sad Story: Dick Stuart's Bat Was Solid; So Was His Glove"
Jean Paul Sartre book Anti-Semite and Jew
He has no need to seek it in anguish, to invent it, to scrutinize it patiently when he has found it, to prove it in action, to verify it by its consequences, or, finally, to shoulder he responsibilities of the moral choice be has made. It is not by chance that the great outbursts of anti‐Semitic rage conceal a basic optimism. The anti‐Semite as cast his lot for Evil so as not to have to cast his lot for Good. The more one is absorbed in fighting Evil, the less one is tempted to place the Good in question. One does not need to talk about it, yet it is always understood in the discourse of the anti‐Semite and it remains understood in his thought. When he has fulfilled his mission as holy destroyer, the Lost Paradise will reconstitute itself. For the moment so many tasks confront the anti‐Semite that he does not have time to think about it. He is in the breach, fighting, and each of his outbursts of rage is a pretext to avoid the anguished search for the Good.
Pages 31-32
Anti-Semite and Jew (1945)
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
It's something I allegedly said on TV. Why doesn't somebody produce a tape of that?<br>Kurtz declared that the original source of the paraphrase he used was Coulter herself in her account of the episode to him:<br>The account of Ann Coulter's remarks to the veteran on MSNBC was provided to me by Coulter herself, who told me she liked the piece and never complained about the passage until she was trying to sell books. <br class="br">As quoted in "Ann Slanders" by Steve Rendall in Extra! (November/December 2002) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1124. <br class="br">1980s-90s
Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) Italian poet, philosopher and writer
Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander
Frankie Boyle (1972) Scottish comedian
Live at the Apollo 10/12/2014
“Rich people seldom run amok; They hire somebody to do that for them.”
Steve Perry (1947) American writer
Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 5
Ziauddin Barani (1285–1357) Indian Muslim historian and political thinker (1285–1357)
Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 3
Chuck Hustmyre (1963) American journalist
2000s, 2009, The Left's love affair with Islam (2009)
Fred Hampton (1948–1969) African-American activist
Excerpt from Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/12/4/watch_the_assassination_of_fred_hampton.
Amir Taheri (1942) Iranian journalist
Without the early Persian poets, Iranians might have ended up like so many other nations in the Middle East who lost their native languages and became Arabic speakers. Early on, Persian poets developed a strategy to check the ardor of the rulers and the mullahs. They started every qasida with praise to God and Prophet followed by panegyric for the ruler of the day. Once those “obligations” were out of the way they would move on to the real themes of the poems they wished to compose. Everyone knew that there was some trick involved but everyone accepted the result because it was good. Despite that modus vivendi some poets did end up in prison or in exile while many others spent their lives in hardship if not poverty. However, poets were never put to the sword. The Khomeinist regime is the first in Iran’s history to have executed so many poets. Implicitly or explicitly, some rulers made it clear what the poet couldn’t write. But none ever dreamt of telling the poet what he should write. Khamenei is the first to try to dictate to poets, accusing them of “crime” and” betrayal” if they ignored his injunctions. <br class="br"> When the Ayatollah Dictates Poetry http://www.aawsat.net/2015/07/article55344336/when-the-ayatollah-dictates-poetry, Ashraq Al-Awsat (Jul 11, 2015).
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Principles and Priorities : Programme for Government (September 5, 2007)
Samuel T. Cohen (1921–2010) American physicist
Harold Mitchell, a medical doctor, an expert on human vulnerability to the H-bomb’s effects, told me when the study first began: “Why are they wasting their time going through all this shit? You know goddamned well that a bomb this big is going to blow the fucking city into the next county. What more do you have to know?” I had to agree with him.
F*** You! Mr. President: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb (2006)
H. D. Deve Gowda (1933) Indian politician
Profile in: Profile: Haradanahalli Dodde Deve Gowda http://www.indianpoliticians.com/profile/23/ 4 December 2008
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter
But anyhow, this is the point, I explained to M. Manet, who probably didn't understand anything I said, that Seurat has something new to contribute which these gentlemen, despite their talent, are unable to appreciate, that I am personally convinced of the progressive character of his art and certain that in time it will yield extraordinary results. Besides I am not concerned with the appreciation of artists, no matter whom. I do not accept the snobbish judgments of "romantic impressionists" to whose interest it is to combat new tendencies. I accept the challenge, that's all..
Quote of Camille Pissarro, in a letter, Paris March 1886, to his son Lucien; in Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, pp. 73-74
1880's
Daniel Lyons (1960) American writer
Apple Design Boss Jon Ive Gets Chauffeured To Work In A Bentley http://valleywag.gawker.com/apple-design-boss-jon-ive-gets-chauffeured-to-work-in-a-1686287300 in ValleyWag (17 February 2015)
Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915) social and political leader during the Indian Independence Movement
Observations of w:John Morley on Minto-Morley Reforms in India for full fiscal and political autonomy within the empire in Gopala Krishna Gokhale, D. N. Bannerjea (1866-1915), 4 December 2013, Bangla Library http://web.archive.org/web/20131017195504/http://forum.banglalibrary.org/viewtopic.php?id=1398,
Ted Cruz (1970) American politician
James Carville, James Carville: Ted Cruz Is The Most 'Fearless Republican' I've Seen In '30 Years' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/05/james-carville-ted-cruz_n_3219572.html, May 5, 2013.
James K. Morrow book Only Begotten Daughter
“You inflict eternal punishment on people,” Julie countered.
“Merely because it’s our job. And remember, we persecute only the guilty, which puts us one up on most other institutions.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 9 (p. 162)
Peter Franken (1928–1999) American physicist
describing Ted Maiman's paper announcing the first operational laser. In an interview http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4612.html by Joan Bromberg on March 8, 1985, at University of Arizona. Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
Note, on "The Book of the Dead"
U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead
Byron White (1917–2002) Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, American football player
Floyd Abrams, Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment, (Viking Press, 2005), p. 71.
Antonio Llidó (1936–1974) Spanish priest
Statements made by Fr. Jesus Rodriguez in an interview with Memory and Justice Chile Organisation on June 19, 2003. http://www.memoriayjusticia.cl/english/en_focus-llido.html#A%20Priest
“Change and growth cannot be halted, time must run on. That is the whole moral of the three books.”
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
Colin Greenland, Beowulf to Kafka: Mervyn Peake’s Titus Alone, reprinted in the omnibus edition The Gormenghast Novels published by The Overlook Press, p. 1141
Robert Aumann (1930) Israeli-American mathematician
" Nobel Prize 2005 Press Release http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2005/press.html" 10 October 2005
Ken Livingstone (1945) Mayor of London between 2000 and 2008
they can go out and raise the money amongst their shareholders who came here to get their snout in the trough — they screwed it up; they are not getting any of our money!
Remarks made regarding the management of Metronet and the PPP of the London Underground during a Mayor's press conference (13 March 2007)
Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) American activist
addressing a crowd alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others during the March Against Fear, 1966, Link http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/filmmore/pt.html
Ingmar Bergman book Laterna Magica
Laterna Magica (1987); The Magic Lantern : An Autobiography as translated by Joan Tate (1988).
Variant translation: Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
As quoted in "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" by John Berger, Sight and Sound (June 1991).
Alan Keyes (1950) American politician
Barack Obama. Quoted in The Audacity of Hope - Page 210 - by Barack Obama.
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 10: The American Forests
George Antheil (1900–1959) American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor
Richard Sherman (American football) (1988) American football player
Stardom Doesn’t Change Where You’re From (April 02, 2014)
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
Source: 1870s, Around the World with General Grant (1879), pp. 162–163
Robert Greene (1959) American author
Chap. 14 : Resist the Downward Pull of the Group
The Laws of Human Nature (2018)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
The poor neat-herd's son, if he were a Noble of Nature, might rise to Priesthood, to High-priesthood, to the top of this world,—and best of all, he had still high Heaven lying high enough above him, to keep his head steady, on whatever height or in whatever depth his way might lie!
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The New Downing Street (April 15, 1850)
Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Speech delivered on September 6, 1990, before the Annual Judicial Conference of the Second Circuit, quoted in Supreme Justice Speeches and Writings Thurgood Marshall. Edited by J. Clay Smith, Jr. (2002).
Joseph Weizenbaum (1923–2008) German-American computer scientist
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation (1976)
L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer
Source: Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left', (2019), p. 285
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
2000s, Address at Stanford University (2005)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Norcross, Georgia, , quoted in * 2016-07-21
Teleprompter Trump: the right temperament or low-energy Donald?
Joe Concha
The Hill
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/288626-teleprompter-trump-the-right-temperament-or-low
2010s, 2015
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Discipleship (1937), Revenge, p. 141
Donald Ervin Knuth (1938) American computer scientist
AI Podcast, December 30, 2019, Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdBfsXbST8,
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (8 Jan 2020) <br class="br">Williamson's quotes in social media
Michael Klaper (1947) American physician
Interview in the documentary-film Cowspiracy by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn (2014).
Will Tuttle (1953) American writer, speaker and musician
Interview in the documentary-film Cowspiracy by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn (2014).
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Three, Brains Changing, Minds Changing
“I can’t stand it, run it again! Huddle up and run it again, Brady!”
Bill Belichick (1952) American football coach
Running an offensive drill during 2000 New England Patriots training camp with rookie quarterback Tom Brady.
Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
"How The Rats Reformed The Congress" (2018)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2020s, 2020, February, Donald Trump Charleston, South Carolina Rally (February 28, 2020)
Jacinda Ardern (1980) Prime Minister of New Zealand
Interview with Lisa Owen at Newshub Nation, 21 October 2017
Uthman (574–656) Companion of Muhammad and third Rashidun Caliph
Letter to Governors of Muslim Empire of Caliphate, quoted in History of the Prophets and Kings, Vol. 5, p. 244
John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter
Boundless Love (co-written with Dan Auerbach and Pat McLaughlin)
Song lyrics, The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter
Caravan of Fools (co-written with Dan Auerbach and Pat McLaughlin)
Song lyrics, The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)