Monday, June 26, 2023

QOD:  There is, of course, a difference between what a man seizes and what he really possesses.  ~  Pearl S. Buck (née Pearl Sydenstricker; June 26, 1892 ~ Mar. 6, 1973), American novelist

Sunday, June 25, 2023

QOD:  The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.  ~  George Orwell (né Eric Arthur Blair; June 25, 1903 ~ Jan. 21, 1950), British novelist

Friday, June 23, 2023

QOD:  The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.  ~  Alan Turing (June 23, 1912 ~ June 7, 1954), English mathematician and computer scientist

Thursday, June 22, 2023

QOD:  For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.  ~  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (née Anne Spencer Morrow; June 22, 1906 ~ Feb. 7, 2001), American author

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

QOD:  Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.  Therefore, we are saved by love.  ~  Reinhold Niebuhr (né Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr; June 21, 1892 ~ June 1, 1971), Christian theologian

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

QOD:  Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge’s chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.  ~  Lillian Hellman (née Lillian Florence Hellman; June 20, 1905 ~ June 30, 1984), American playwright

Monday, June 19, 2023 // Juneteenth

QOD:  Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.  ~  Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 ~ Aug. 19, 1662), French mathematician