Actuais Comandos Quotes & Sayings

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars. — Norman Finkelstein

Siddhartha wants liberation, Dante wants Beatrice, Frodo wants to get to Mount Doom - we all want something. Quest is elemental to the human experience. All road narratives are to some extent built on quest. If you're a woman, though, this fundamental possibility of quest is denied. You can't go anywhere if you can't step out onto a road ...
... (T)here is no female counterpart in our culture to Ishmael or Huck Finn. There is no Dean Moriarty, Sal, or even a Fuckhead. It sounds like a doctoral crisis, but it's not. As a fifteen-year-old hitchhiker, my survival depended upon other people's ability to envision a possible future for me. Without a Melvillean or Kerouacian framework, or at least some kind of narrative to spell out a potential beyond death, none of my resourcefulness or curiosity was recognizable, and therefore I was unrecognizable. — Vanessa Veselka

Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. — Thomas Sowell

You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying to produce those states of mind by 'maistry'. — C.S. Lewis

I believe in the same thing they believe in,' I say, with a jerk of my chin toward town and St. Columba's. 'I just don't believe you can find it in a building. — Maggie Stiefvater

I think it's very good music composed by a human composer and sung by two birds with two feet and no feathers! — Alexandre Dumas

I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills. — Gary Oldman

I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true. — Missi Pyle

Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek them out. There are still noble adventures to undertake. There are still trees that speak and caverns that lead to nether realms. There will always be faeries and elves within nature because they will always be dancing in our hearts. — Ted Andrews

I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist. — Michele Bachmann

To find love, joy and peace for the humanity, let us promise to build a peace loving and a kind family. — Debasish Mridha

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that. — Pearl S. Buck