5546092 Quotes & Sayings

Every day that you harp on this gloom and doom is another day you miss the blessed life you have here, right now, this instant." "Sandy, — Jamie Kornegay

Lord ... please help us overcome our despair,
So we can help others overcome theirs.
Amen! — Timothy Pina

There is a double rhythm in all human beings. We are binary beings - two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears. Two legs for walking. And the heartbeat thumping in our chest mirrors that. — Paul Auster

The emphasis on technology over an understanding of the realities of war and conflict reflect[s] the ahistoricism not only of too much of the U.S. military officer corps, but of the American educational system as well. Our mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan were the result of a pervasive failure to understand the historical framework within which insurgencies take place, to appreciate the cultural and political factors of other nations and people, and to encourage the learning of foreign languages. In other words, in Afghanistan and Iraq we managed to repeat many of the mistakes we made in Vietnam, because America's political and military leaders managed to forget nearly every lesson of that conflict. — Peter R. Mansoor

Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. 'It's covered in BREAD,' he huffed. 'What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD? — Erin Bow

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. — Andrew Marvell

(I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I am trying to describe and discuss are beyond my abilities. I am trying, however, the best I can, and will go back over this as carefully as possible when I am finished, and will make changes and corrections whenever I can see a way to make what I'm discussing clearer or more interesting without fabricating anything.) — David Foster Wallace

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have. — Chuck Palahniuk

Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring. — Dawn Powell