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. . . CRISIS see "UNHAPPINESS" for related links The die is cast. {on the crossing of the Rubicon} --Gaius Julius Caesar (100 B.C.-44 B.C.) Roman military and political leader, in Suetonius _Lives of the Caesars_ "Divine Julius" and in Plutarch _Parallel Lives_ "Pompey" I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial. {on becoming Prime Minister [10 May 1940]} --Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister [1940-1945, 1951-1955] As someone pointed out recently, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. --Jean Kerr (1923- ) American writer, _Please Don't Eat the Daisies_ [1957] The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead. --Thomas Paine [spelled Pane prior to 1774] (1737-1809) English-American writer and political pamphleteer. We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. {on the Cuban missile crisis} --Dean Rusk (1909-1994) American politician. Whatever might be the extent of the individual calamity, I do not consider it of a nature worthy to interrupt the proceedings on so great a national question. {on hearing that his theatre was on fire, during a debate on the campaign in Spain} --Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist. Speech in House of Commons [24 February 1809].  . . see "THE PAST" Our moral criticism of past ages can easily be mistaken. It transfers present-day desiderata to the past. It views personalities according to set principles and makes too little allowance for the urgencies of the moment. --Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) Swiss historian of art and culture. _Judgments on History_ [1865-85] The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today. --Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French poet. Th' further ye get away fr'm anny peeryod the' betther ye can write about it. Ye are not subjict to interruptions by people that were there. --Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) American journalist and humorist. _Mr. Dooley on Making a Will_ [1919] We cannot reform our forefathers. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880) English novelist, _Adam Bede_ [1859] By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves. --William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist, "On Reading Old Books" [1821] . . see also: "CRITICISM" Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself. --Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French philosopher Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) French moralist and essayist ;void(0)) CROOKS . . see "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for related links Those of you who contributed so generously last year to the floating hospital have probably wondered what became of the money. I was speaking on this subject only last week at our up-town branch, and, after the meeting, a dear little old lady, dressed all in lavendar, came up on the platform, and, laying her hand on my arm, said: "Mr. So-and-so (calling me by name) Mr. So-and-so, what the hell did you do with all the money we gave you last year?" Well, I just laughed and pushed her off the platform... --Robert Benchley (1889-1945) U.S. humorist and newspaper columnist, "The Treasurer's Report" An honest politician is one who, when he's bought, stays bought. --attributed to Simon Cameron (1799-1889) American politician, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 577 Cohan & Major add: Lincoln reluctantly made Cameron his secretary of war in 1861, and Cameron soon made the war department a byword for corruption. He was removed in Jan. 1862 and sent as minister to Russia to get him out of Washington. In April 1862 his conduct as secretary of war was censured by the House of Representatives. TOPICAL He inadvertently took home documents and notes about documents that he was not permitted to take from the archives; secondly, he inadvertently didn't notice the papers in his possession when he got home and actually looked at them; and, thirdly, he inadvertently discarded some of these same files so that they are now missing. Gone, in fact. --Martin Peretz, Turning Tale, The New Republic Online http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=peretz072104 [referring to Sandy Berger] ----- Machiavellian (adj.) [mak-ee-ê-'vel-ee-ên] 1. Characterized by unscrupulous cunning, deception, or expediency; 2 Manipulative, resorting to exploiting and misleading others in pursuit of one's personal goals. end page | CALAMITIES - CALM | CALUMNY - CAMPAIGN FINANCING | CAMPAIGNS & CANADA | CANCER - CAN'T WIN | CAPITALISM | CAREFREE - CARPE DIEM | CARTER (JIMMY) - CATS & DOGS | CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES - CENSORSHIP | CERTAINTY - CHANGE | CHANGING (ONE'S MIND) & CHANGING TIMES | CHARACTER | CHARACTER ASSASINATION - CHEERFULNESS | CHEER UP! - CHILDHOOD | CHILDREN | CHILDREN'S RHYME | CHILE & CHINA | CHOCOLATE - CHRISTIANITY | CHRISTMAS | CHURCH - CIGARS | CIRCUMSTANCES & CITIES | CIVILITY - CIVIL RIGHTS | CLARITY - CLICHES | CLOTHES - COFFEE | COLD - COLORS | COMEDY | COMFORT - COMMON SENSE | COMMUNICATION | COMMUNISM | COMPANIONSHIP - COMPASSION | COMPETITION - COMPLIMENTS | COMPOSERS - CONDUCTORS | CONFESSION - CONQUEST | CONSCIENCE - CONTENTED | CONTEXT - CONVENTIONAL WISDOM | CONVERSATION | CONVICTION & COOKING | COOLIDGE - CORPORATIONS | CORRECTING - COURAGE | COURT - COWS | CREATIVITY - CRIME | CRIME & PUNISHMENT | CRISIS - CROOKS | CRITICISM & CRITICS | CROWD (THE) - CUBA | CULTURE - CYNICS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | |
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