Maybe I’m having my own extended moment of Zen, but I keep thinking about these two quotations, which I encountered earlier this week.

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer them.”

— Zora Neale Hurston (quoted in The Week)

“People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”

— George Orwell, “London Letter,” Partisan Review, Winter 1945 (Quoted in Arts Journal)

4 Responses to “Quotes of the day: These may or may not relate to yesterday’s election”

  1. Ben Knight says:
    November 4, 2010 at 5:14 am

    Nice quotes… Funny, I keep thinking of: “Before us stands yesterday.” -Ted Hughes

  2. Skip Balch says:
    November 4, 2010 at 8:15 am

    The amazing fact of history is that it has a 100% accuracy rating…for predicting the future.

  3. Chris says:
    December 2, 2010 at 8:49 am

    @Skip: ….until the revisionists come along.

  4. kaite says:
    April 5, 2011 at 4:27 am

    @Skip: ….until the revisionists come along.