"Now this sort of [irrational exuberance] will wane in a while, because the realities of power will cause Obama to make choices that will disappoint a lot of people."    - Bill Moyers speaking to Terry Gross on "Fresh Air", 11/5/08 ( Read more... )

From the NYT 9/11/2006:

Navratilova told the packed Arthur Ashe Stadium that she lived by words Katherine Hepburn once told her:
It’s not what you do in life, it’s what you finish.

(and you know I always listen to my dykes...
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Before Wilbur and Orville, you really did hear ordinary people on the street say, "If God had wanted us to fly, he would have given us wings." After that, what you hear people say is, "If we can do that, if human beings can do THAT, what CAN'T we do?"

Tom Crouch on NPR's Radio Lab

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

- T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding