“The loser says, it may be possible but it’s difficult. The winner says, it may be difficult, but it’s possible.”

Althea Gibson, 1958 Wimbledon and US Open Women’s Champion, on ESPN, September 11, 1987, 7:00 PM [Gibson broke the “colour bar” in women’s tennis and on becoming the first black woman to win Wimbledon, after receiving the trophy from Elizabeth II, commented "Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus."]

“He [Octavian aka Augustus Caesar] kept to the end his bourgeois good sense, conservatism, parsimony, and caution. Festina lente – ‘make haste slowly’ – was his favorite saw.”

Will Durant Caesar and Christ

“Modern criticism has come to mean this: that nobody knows what an artist is trying to do, and therefore nobody knows whether he has done it.”

G.K. Chesterton in New York American 30/12/1933, quoted in “Art Criticism” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #3 (Jan.-Feb. 2024)

“As might be expected from [C.S.] Lewis, he gave his lecture a Latin title: ‘De Descriptione Temporum,’ which might be rendered into English as ‘A Description of Time.’ He had long argued that the rigid way of describing the Renaissance as a sudden break with the past was simply incorrect. In fact, all of the great divisions of time lacked clear landmarks to set them apart. Change takes place over a period of many centuries, with one exception. He argued that a change between the period of Jane Austen and when he was speaking in 1954 was unlike any other change in culture throughout world history. He noted the recent symposium on T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘A Cooking Egg’ in which seven leading scholars could not agree on what the poem means. He noted the un-Christianizing of the West, which had accelerated since Austen’s time. He noted the way in which politics had become ‘the organization of mass excitement,’ or what Punch called ‘Govertisement.’ Finally, he noted that with the success of the machine, the culture had moved to viewing what is new is good and what is old is bad. The result was that education has shifted from the development of character to the acquisition of technical skill and the assimilation of data. In his inaugural lecture, Lewis painted a picture of a world in which people had lost the ability to make value judgments because of the disappearance of values.”

Harry Lee Poe The Completion of C.S. Lewis

“All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.”

Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power

“Miley Cyrus said her ninth studio album, “Something Beautiful,” is her attempt to reimagine what “beautiful” means: her beloved grandmother’s death, for instance, or the emotion of rage.”

New York Times email teaser June 6, 2025, joining in transvaluing all values

“One of two Victoria crosses awarded during the battle of Kohima went to Lance Corporal John Harmon of the Royal West Kents for his brave exploits. Sniper Harman – who spent much of his boyhood on the remote Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel owned by his millionaire father Martin – sprang into action when he spotted a Japanese light machine gun team taking over a nearby trench. Without hesitation he sprinted some 35 yards towards the trench, flung a grenade which killed the two Japanese inside and returned to his line bearing a captured gun. Two days later on 9 April in cold, wet weather he repeated this astonishing performance, only this time there were five men in the trench armed with automatic weapons and he himself used a fixed bayonet rather than a grenade. ‘When all the enemies were dead he walked back to his lines ignoring his comrades’ pleas to run for cover. He was killed by a burst of fire and died, saying “I've got to go. It was worth it – I got the lot.”’ His actions kept the hill in British hands for the time being at least.”

Karen Farrington Victory in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to the Fall of Okinawa [she does not footnote this or any quotation].

“I may have my faults but being wrong isn’t one of them.”

Poster (with picture of a rhinoceros) on wall of a guy working on Dead Sea Scrolls, evidently the project director who went mad and antisemitic, on PBS October 15, 1991 19:50-55