John Gould Fletcher Quotes

#1. Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Tim Berners-Lee

#2. True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

Sakyong Mipham

#3. As I went through the city by day
I saw shadows in sunlight;
But in the night I saw everywhere
Stars within the darkness.

John Gould Fletcher

#4. SLAP! I saw a bright flash in front of my eyes, 'Don't you try and be a fucking smart arse in here, Holland, this is Partick cop shop you're in,' the irate copper retorted.
'So fuck,' I snapped.

Stephen Richards

#5. Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

John Gould Fletcher

#6. I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.

Kay Mills

#7. Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.

Barry M. Goldwater

#8. In the afternoon, over gold screens,
I will brush the blue dust of my dreams.

John Gould Fletcher

#9. When you're as small as I am, people don't expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

Daniel Rodriguez

#10. The present moment is the combination of future and past ... so let's live and sometimes, sometimes let's just forget about the rest!

Haidji

#11. Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

John Gould Fletcher

#12. God willing, we shall this day meet that old enemy
Who has give us so many a good beating.
Thank God we have a cause worth fighting for,
And a cause worth losing and a good song to sing.

John Gould Fletcher

#13. Here upon earth there is life, and then death,
Dawn, and later nightfall,
Fire, and the quenching of embers:
But why should I not remember that my night is dawn in another part of the world,
If the idea fits my fancy?

John Gould Fletcher

#14. My happiness is like this sand:
I let it run out of my hand.

John Gould Fletcher

#15. Wind of the night, Questing, swaying, calling, Rustle of dull grasses, Why do you trouble me?

John Gould Fletcher