Aa Milne Books Quotes & Sayings

Lifes too short to live the same day twice. — Jennifer Lopez

It was obvious to early Jewish interpreters that the word "land" in the Jeremiah passage meant "the land" which was promised to Israel and which was also inhabited by Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon ( Jeremiah 27:3). It was also clear to them, as it is to most modern scholars, that the Jeremiah passage was reading off the pages of Genesis — John Sailhamer

Seagulls dove among corpses and survivors alike. Turner later told his son, Norman, that he found himself fending off attacks by the birds, which swooped from the sky and pecked at the eyes of floating corpses. Rescuers later reported that wherever they saw spirals of gulls, they knew they would find bodies. Turner's experience left him with such a deep hatred of seagulls, according to Norman, that until his retirement he used to carry a .22 rifle and shoot every seagull he could. — Erik Larson

If a lifetime in the end is remembered for a handful of days, this is one of them. — Charles Yu

The guard's gaze was on him, the eyes hard and piercing. — Steven Erikson

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something. — Dorothea Dix

I'd be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They're entitled to do whatever they want. — Chuck Feeney

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing. — Benjamin Franklin

As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. People want America to have a certain image when we fight. Yet I would guess if someone were shooting at them and they had to hold their family members while they bled out against an enemy who hid behind their children, played dead only to throw a grenade as they got closer, and who had no qualms about sending their toddler to die from a grenade from which they personally pulled the pin ... they would be less concerned with playing nicely. — Chris Kyle

Humility is the light of understanding. — John Bunyan

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it. — Bashar Al-Assad