August 24 Quotes

#1. These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.

A.E. Housman

#2. And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

Khalil Gibran

#3. On 24 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God's love for humankind.

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: How beautiful that is!

Paul Gauguin

#5. When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#6. Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

Spencer W. Kimball

#7. Assignment as Fish Hatchery Attendant along with words of praise for her childhood spent doing many volunteer hours there, and her obvious interest in the important

Anonymous

#8. Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

Lara Spencer

#9. What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?

Ron Paul

#10. There were simply some guys you wanted to hold on to - every memory, every note, every conversation - you longed to keep it all. And that was how I felt when it came to him.

J. Sterling

#11. Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

Peter Morgan

#12. Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we weren't able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.

Richie Havens

#13. As knowing God becomes more important to you, you will stop thinking about discouragements and persecutions; you will stop worrying altogether

Sunday Adelaja

#14. On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

Hans Frank

#15. I wonder if realizing you're not sure about stuff is what makes you a grown up?

Patrick Ness

#16. It isn't easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
-Hephaestus

Rick Riordan

#17. I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me.

Zach Braff

#18. Biblical faith lives at the intersection of shocking honesty and glorious hope.

Paul David Tripp