February 13
Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2005
- In this moment, I need to be needed,
With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked,
In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted,
'Cause I love to be loved,
I love to be loved.
~ Peter Gabriel (born 13 February 1950)- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- Life is what it is, and you take what's handed, and you work as hard as you can, and hopefully you'll be successful, but I just don't spend too much time worrying about that. ~ Jerry Springer (born 13 February 1944)
- proposed by User:Liquidice5
- 2007
- Every man's life (and ... every woman's life), awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal ... love is a divinity above all accidents, and guards his own with extraordinary obstinacy. ~ Eleanor Farjeon (born 13 February 1881)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
- Morning has broken,
Like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.
Praise for the singing!
Praise for the morning!
Praise for them springing
Fresh from the Word!
~ Eleanor Farjeon ~- proposed by Kalki
- 2010
- Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
- proposed by Kalki
- 2011
- He could not be captured,
He could not be bought,
His running was rhythm,
His standing was thought;
With one eye on sorrow
And one eye on mirth,
He galloped in heaven
And gambolled on earth.And only the poet
With wings to his brain
Can mount him and ride him
Without any rein,
The stallion of heaven,
The steed of the skies,
The horse of the singer
Who sings as he flies.
~ Eleanor Farjeon ~- proposed by Kalki
- 2012
- Some say the Gods are just a myth
but guess Who I've been dancing with...
The Great God Pan is alive!
~ Mike Scott ~- proposed by Kalki for the first day of the ancient 3 day celebration of Lupercalia
- 2013
| In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received. |
| ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~ |
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- proposed by Kalki
- 2014
- Rank or add further suggestions…
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
- All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
- Used 23 January 2004, selected by Kalki
- It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
Suggestions
Sweet the rain's new fall,
Sunlit from heaven,
Like the first dewfall
On the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness
Of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness
Where his feet pass.
~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
- 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Mine is the sunlight,
Mine is the morning
Born of the one light
Eden saw play.
Praise with elation,
Praise every morning,
God's re-creation
Of the new day!
~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
- 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
- 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
Dropt tears have hastened your decay
And brought you one step nigher death;
And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved,
The music of Love's golden breath
And seen the light in eyes that loved.
You think you hold the core and kernel
Of all the world beneath your crust,
Old dial? But when you lie in dust,
This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved.
Love is eternal.
~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
- 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
The world never knows, and cannot for the life of it imagine, what this man sees in that maid and that maid in this man. The world cannot think why they fell in love with each other. But they have their reason, their beautiful secret, that never gets told to more than one person; and what they see in each other is what they show to each other; and it is the truth. Only they kept it hidden in their hearts until the time came. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
- 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ~ Robert H. Jackson (born 1892 February 13)
- —This unsigned comment is by Bystander (talk • contribs) .
- 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a lean toward 4).
We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority. ~ Robert H. Jackson (born 1892 February 13)
- —This unsigned comment is by Bystander (talk • contribs) .
- 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a lean toward 4).
But we must not forget that in our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds — that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous. ~ Robert H. Jackson (born 1892 February 13)
- —This unsigned comment is by Bystander (talk • contribs) .
- 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a strong lean toward 4).
If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification. ~ William Shockley (born 1910 February 13)
- —This unsigned comment is by Bystander (talk • contribs) .
- 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC)