February 25

Quotes of the dayfrom previous years:

2004

An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work. ~Rita Rudner

selected by IP172.161.111.38

2005

Little darling,
I feel that ice is slowly melting.
Little darling,
It seems like years since it's been clear.
Here comes the sun...
Here comes the sun,
And I say
It's alright.
~George Harrison~
(born 25 February 1943, according to death certificate)

selected byKalki

2006

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters. ~Anthony Burgess(born 25 February 1917)

selected byKalki

2007

I look at the world and I notice it’s turning.
While my guitar gently weeps.
With every mistake we must surely be learning,
Still my guitar gently weeps.
~George Harrison~

proposed byKalki

2008

Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense. ~John Leonard(born 25 February 1939)

proposed byInvisibleSun

2009

Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.
~George Harrison~

proposed byKalki

2010

When the state murders, it assumes an authority I refuse to concede: the authority of perfect knowledge in final things. ~John Leonard

proposed byInvisibleSun

2011

If there is victory in overcoming the enemy, there is a greater victory when a man overcomes himself. ~José de San Martín

proposed byKalki

2012

Thescientist,like themagician,possessessecrets.A secret — expertise — is somehow perceived as antidemocratic,and therefore ought to be unnatural.We have come a long way fromPrometheustoFausttoFrankenstein.And even Frankenstein's monster is now ajoke.~John Leonard

proposed bybystander

2013

Mybest friendis he who rights mywrongsor reproaches mymistakes.

~José de San Martín~

proposed byKalki

2014

Thecultureas a whole is losing itsindividualnotes, itsdiversity.And this is… it's not onlysad.It's devastating. It's devastating because routinelanguagemeans routinethought.And it means unquestioning thought.

~John Leonard~

proposed byKalki

2015

From theHinduperspective, eachsoulisdivine.All religionsare branches of one bigtree.It doesn't matter what you callHimjust as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations oflightandshade,so is theuniversal varietyadelusion.The planetary spheres, with their countless forms oflife,are naught but figures in acosmicmotion picture. One'svaluesare profoundlychangedwhen he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimatereality.

~George Harrison~

proposed byKalki

2016

Ilookat youall—seethelovethere that'ssleeping
While myguitar gently weeps.

~George Harrison~

proposed byKalki

2017

You can be standing right in front of thetruthand notnecessarily seeit, andpeopleonly get it when they’re ready to get it.

~George Harrison~

proposed byKalki

2018

I had noambitionwhen I was a kid other than to playguitarand get in arock 'n' rollband. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like inthe Beatles,I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the otheregosbe at the front.

~George Harrison~

proposed byKalki

2019

Morenoiseoccurs from a singlemanshouting than a hundred thousand who arequiet.

~José de San Martín~

proposed byZarbon

2020

To becapableofembarrassmentis thebeginningofmoral consciousness.Honor growsfromqualms.

~John Leonard~

proposed byInvisibleSun

2021

Military peoplehave a heavy investment inrulesagainsttorture,not only because we want toprotectour own POWs from reciprocal brutalities… but also becausewaris so terrible that it desperately requires anylimitsanyone can agree on, any gesture towarddignity,any mitigation suggestingcivilizedscruple. There isn’t even persuasiveevidencethat torture makes its victims tell theirsecrets,instead of saying whatever we want to hear.

~John Leonard~

proposed byInvisibleSun

2022

I want to address today thepeopleofRussia.I am addressing you not as apresident,I am addressing you as a citizen ofUkraine.More than 2,000 km of the common border is dividing us. Along this border your troops are stationed, almost 200,000soldiers,thousands of military vehicles. Your leaders approved them to make a step forward, to the territory of anothercountry.And this step can be the beginning of a bigwaronEuropeancontinent.
We know for sure that we don't need the war. Not a Cold War, not a hot war. Not a hybrid one. But if we'll be attacked by the troops, if they try to take our country away from us, ourfreedom,our lives, the lives of ourchildren,we will defend ourselves. Not attack, but defend ourselves. And when you will be attacking us, you will see our faces, not our backs, but our faces.
The war is a big disaster, and this disaster has a high price. With every meaning of this word. People losemoney,reputation, quality of life, they lose freedom. But the main thing is that people lose their loved ones, they lose themselves.
They told you that Ukraine is posing a threat to Russia. It was not the case in the past, not in the present, it's not going to be in the future. You are demanding security guarantees fromNATO,but we also demand security guarantees. Security for Ukraine from you, from Russia and other guarantees of theBudapest memorandum.
But our main goal ispeacein Ukraine and the safety of our people, Ukrainians. For that we are ready to have talks with anybody, including you, in any format, on any platform. The war will deprive guarantees from everybody — nobody will have guarantees of security anymore. Who will suffer the most from it? The people. Who doesn't want it the most? The people! Who can stop it? The people.

~Volodymyr Zelenskyy~

proposed byKalki;recent remark’s on the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine.

2023

I amgratefulto ourpeople,grateful to our multi-million army ofvolunteersandcitizenswho do care, who can collect and get everythingnecessary.
We have become one. Our journalists and media are a united frontfightingagainstliesandpanic.
We have become onefamily.There are no morestrangersamong us.Ukrainianstoday are all fellows. Ukrainians have sheltered Ukrainians, opened theirhomesandheartsto those who were forced to fleethe war.
We withstand all threats, shelling, cluster bombs, cruise missiles, kamikaze drones, blackouts, and cold. We arestrongerthan that.
It was a year of resilience. A year of care. A year ofbravery.A year ofpain.A year ofhope.A year ofendurance.A year ofunity.
The year of invincibility. The furious year of invincibility.
Its main result is that we endured. We were not defeated. And we will do everything to gainvictorythis year!

~Volodymyr Zelenskyy~

proposed byKalki;recent remarks on current events.

2024

Give melove,give mepeaceon earth,
Give melight,give melife,keep mefreefrombirth,
Give mehope,help me cope, with this heavy load,
Trying to,touchand reach you with,heartandsoul.

~George Harrison~

proposed byKalki

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The books we love, love us back. In gratitude, we should promise not to cheat on them — not to pretend we're better than they are; not to use them as target practice, agit-prop, trampolines, photo ops or stalking horses; not to sell out scruple to that scratch-and-sniff info-tainment racket in which we posture in front of experience instead of engaging it. ~John Leonard

3InvisibleSun15:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
3Kalki16:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
1Zarbon22:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
3bystander(talk) 20:39, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

A well-fought defeat is worth more than a casual victory. ~José de San Martín(born February 25)

4 because I love this one. For to lose in style is better than to win without enthralling magnificence.Zarbon17:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
2Kalki00:17, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

In God's body shop, each of us was customized. But science came along to substitute statistical inference for free will. We are now a tribe of likelihoods. ~John Leonard

3Kalki(talk·contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Granted,religioniswishful thinking,but there is no other kind of thinking. ~John Leonard

3Kalki(talk·contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Thewords,thestylealways reflects ahabitofmind.And the habit of mind comes in from a different angle. ~John Leonard

3Kalki(talk·contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Everybody is forever saying that the essay isdead.This is always said in essays. ~John Leonard

3Kalki(talk·contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There are too manyironiesin thefire!~John Leonard

3Kalki(talk·contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Let us befree,the rest matters not. ~José de San Martín

3Kalki(talk·contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I only wantLionsin my regiment. ~José de San Martín

3Kalki(talk·contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

You will be what you must be, or else you will be nothing. ~José de San Martín

3Kalki(talk·contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

My promises to the people for whom I have waged war have been fulfilled — to accomplish their independence and leave the choice of their rulers to their own will. ~José de San Martín

3Kalki(talk·contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has. ~José de San Martín

3Kalki(talk·contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.

~George Harrison~

3♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡00:05, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work. It doesn't matter if you chop wood as long as you chop and keep chopping. Then you get what's coming to you. You don't have to drop out. In fact, if you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.

~George Harrison~