October famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
-- Abby Sunderland -
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
-- Alexander Smith -
The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you can't recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October? Mitt Romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen,
-- Arlen Specter -
Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.
-- Ato Boldon -
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression,
-- Ben Bernanke -
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did Drive, so I took a year off. I didn't do anything at all, really. I just hung around.
-- Carey Mulligan -
And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.
-- Dario Fo -
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.
-- David Rockefeller -
All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning
-- Dmitri Volkogonov -
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform
-- Eric Hobsbawm -
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
-- Gyorgy Ligeti -
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
-- Hal Borland -
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.
-- Hal Borland -
She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. "Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you're clearly the most anemic goth I've ever seen."... "We believed you. Because that's what friends do." pg267 October to Vlad
-- Heather Brewer -
Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, things like this no longer happen. Now, we can frown by ourselves.
-- Ivan Bagramyan -
The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.
-- Jack Kerouac -
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.
-- Jerome K. Jerome -
When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.
-- Joan Robinson -
The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.
-- John Dyer -
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
-- John F. Kennedy -
He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.
-- John Fletcher -
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
-- Joseph Rotblat -
October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.
-- Joy Fielding -
In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
-- Karen Mills -
October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.
-- Keith Donohue -
I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.
-- Leif Enger -
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time you see the national monument, you'll say 'I met God on the National Mall.'
-- Luis Palau -
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates have performed better than they have in years. For the moment, today, as you read this, the Democratic candidates are the jokes.
-- Matthew Continetti -
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.
-- May Sarton -
In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev -
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
-- Nelson Algren -
Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.
-- Patricia Highsmith -
Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.
-- Paul Reiser -
Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation -- and it’s called October,
-- Pete Rose -
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
-- Peter Bart -
Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let me point out that it is now snowing outside, in October.
-- Peter Lilley -
Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.
-- Polly Samson -
So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you stout and hale; through all my days, I'll sing the praise of brown October ale.
-- Reginald De Koven -
Fresh October brings the pheasant, The to gather nuts is pleasant.
-- Sara Coleridge -
Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.
-- Stephen King -
In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
-- Virchand Gandhi -
I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.
-- W. S. Merwin -
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
-- William C. Bryant -
The October Crisis was not just a crisis of the financial sector, but one arising from an ill-informed and erroneous mindset that still infects businesses in general and requires correction.
-- Chip Pitts -
The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.
-- Chip Pitts -
I think there are only two things you should really expect Congress to do.One is to pass a short-term funding bill, because it's not in their political interest to shut down the government when the fiscal year comes into effect, the new fiscal year, on October 1. The second thing, I think, is Zika funding. This has been put off and off for months and months.
-- Susan Page -
In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome.
-- Alison Stewart -
Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.
-- David Maraniss -
One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.
-- Kenneth Arrow
