December Quotes - Page 9

• One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December.

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Christmas, Drinking

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• December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.

  Lois Duncan

  Heart, Want, Months

  Lois Duncan (1989). “Don't Look Behind You”, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers

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• It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.

  Anne Fadiman

  Old Things, Waiting, Psychology

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• Right now, we continue to see demand at very strong levels. It's tough to find a Wii now. If we hit 100 stores in the area, we would find Wiis in only 20 percent of them today. That tremendous strength we had in December really wiped the pipeline clean. Our pipeline, the retailer pipeline. And so with that kind of demand, it doesn't suggest the need for any pricing actions.

  Cammie Dunaway

  Strong, Needs, Wii

  "Nintendo isn’t worried about Apple, and you won’t see Mario on Facebook". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. March 2, 2010.

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• But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.

  Ernie Davis

  Good Life, Happy Life, Years

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• I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and I just had such a strong reaction to the prayer. And I was really emotionally - I felt really grounded at that time. And so to be in this prayer and the imam is doing the prayer in Arabic and I don't understand a word of Arabic but I just remember these tears just coming down my face and it just really connecting to my spirit in a way that felt like I needed to pay attention to that.

  Mahershala Ali

  Strong, Prayer, Philadelphia

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Now the seasons are closing their files
  on each of us, the heavy drawers
  full of certificates rolling back
  into the tree trunks, a few old papers
  flocking away. Someone we loved
  has fallen from our thoughts,
  making a little, glittering splash
  like a bicycle pushed by a breeze.
  Otherwise, not much has happened;
  we fell in love again, finding
  that one red feather on the wind.

  Ted Kooser

  Wind, Tree, Paper

  Ted Kooser (2005). “Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985”, p.96, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• You know, I think there should be a Zach Braff Day. We could have it on December 25th and then people can decide whether they want to celebrate me or Jesus. If you ask me, the choice is pretty obvious.

  Zach Braff

  Jesus, Thinking, People

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• O cruel cloudless space,
  And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies!
  Why do we feel restored
  As in a sacramental place?
  Here Mystery is artifice,
  And here a vision of such peace is stored,
  Healing flows from it through our eyes.

  May Sarton

  Lying, Healing, Eye

  May Sarton (2014). “In Time Like Air: Poems”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, August, Defense

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• I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row.

  Xeno Muller

  School, Hands, Association

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• There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Cousin, May

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.83, BookCaps Study Guides

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• In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Brother, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.317, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

  Pippa Middleton

  Children, Weekend, Tree

  "Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Families and Friends". Book by Pippa Middleton, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

  George Monbiot

  Real, Agreement, Environmental

  "Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling". www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2009.

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• The Mayans have predicted the world is supposed to end on December 21. If the world doesn't end on December 21, you can bet the next day the malls will be overrun with Mayans trying to buy last-minute gifts.

  Jay Leno

  Next Day, Trying, World

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• The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ... had his birthday celebrated on December 25 ... Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans ... Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagans' veneration of the day of the sun ... To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute- Sunday.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Morning, Sunday

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• Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Our World, Paris, Leader

  "Institutions worth $2.6 trillion have now pulled investments out of fossil fuels" by Damian Carrington, Emma Howard, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Jewish Christmas' - that's what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through December without mixing the two holidays.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Christmas, Growing Up, Holiday

  Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.

  Robert Burns

  Sex, Night, Opposites

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• We, PANTERA, had the greatest, the most intense, dedicated fans I've ever seen in my ******* life. And I really hope with all my heart that one day, people - especially our fans and my friends - can see clearly enough to think for themselves and really realize that I have nothing but love for them. I've just been going through personal hell since December. Once again, it's very hard to talk about, man. You know, my heart is in a thousand pieces a day.

  Phil Anselmo

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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• [That is] hard to predict, [it] could be either September or December [2016] I personally think the sooner the better because that would be a good sign that the Fed believes the economy is significantly stronger.

  Jamie Dimon

  Believe, Thinking, Stronger

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained the US has great science here, this is where the market for these things is going to be. It connects to less pollution, it connects to U.S. jobs, it connects to security, not needing the energy coming from far away.

  Bill Gates

  Monday, Jobs, Tuesday

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• The nicest characters in A Week in December research are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Religious, Character, Facts

  "Sebastian Faulks moves to head off Islam row" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2009.

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• I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.

  Barry Goldwater

  Betrayal, War, Hypocrisy

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