Category: Quote of the Month

Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. ~Terri Guillemets

January 2019 – Quote of the Month

“How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.” ~Keanu Reeves

December 2018 – Quote of the Month

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” ~Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireJ.K. Rowling

October 2018 – Quote of the Month

“Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make.” ~ Bram Stoker Dracula

September 2018 – Quote of the Month

“Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us.” ~ Ralphie (Narrator) A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd

August 2018 – Quote of the Month

“I don’t want to hear the specials. If they’re so special, put ’em on the menu.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld

July 2018 – Quote of the Month

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people …

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June 2018 – Quote of the Month

“Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.” ~John Adams

May 2018 – Quote of the Month

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” ~Will Rogers

April 2018 – Quote of the Month

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~Alice Walker

March 2018 – Quote of the Month

“‘Time does not tarry ever,’ he said; ‘but change and growth is not in all things and places alike. For the Elves the world moves, and it moves both very swift and very slow. Swift, because they themselves change little, and all else fleets by: it is a grief to them. Slow, because they do …

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February 2018 – Quote of the Month

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” ~Oscar Wilde

January 2018 – Quote of the Month

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” ~Jane Austen

December 2017 – Quote of the Month

“National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.” ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

November 2017 – Quote of the Month

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” ~ Voltaire

October 2017 – Quote of the Month

“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” ~ Albert Einstein

September 2017 – Quote of the Month

“This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.” ~ Mary Hunter Austin

August 2017 – Quote of the Month

“I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it’s …

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July 2017 – Quote of the Month

“The crucial test of ethical values is whether they apply to strangers, and those afar, not just in our midst.” ~ Bernard Crick, Essays on Citizenship, 2000

June 2017 – Quote of the Month

“Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

May 2017 – Quote of the Month

“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” ~ George Orwell

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