Quotes for the new year,

[Raggamuffin]

“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
― Marcel Proust

Ed

 

[tree]

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty;
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens

This is a quote of a quote that I posted on Facebook, Feb.15, 2011.

 

[Raggamuffin]

This one isn't the happiest of quotes, but it feels rather apt:

"Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear."


Ed

 

[Mia]

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal

 

[tree]

"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate,
and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Page:Eisenhower Farewell Address reading copy.djvu/21 - Wikisource, the free online library

 

[Mia]

"Where there is reasonable evidence of an impending threat to public health, it is inappropriate to require proof of causation beyond a reasonable doubt before taking steps to avert the threat," Campbell wrote in a chapter called "Spring of Fear," citing Justice Horace Krever, who presided over Canada's tainted blood inquiry.

 

[watersprite]

“…the going over and over it, sometimes for years, trying to squeeze something usedul out of every failure, so it stops eating away at you…”

— Peter Grainger