All Ties Are Falling Quotes & Sayings

In World War II, some Japanese soldiers preferred to take their own lives rather become prisoners of war. In Saipan hundreds of civilians jumped to their deaths over cliffs in order to avoid falling into American hands. Even in life-or-death situations cultural ties and duties often outweigh the instinct for survival. This is why people die in the attempt to rescue a dog from drowning, or decide to become suicide bombers. — Harald Welzer

the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable. — Gail Godwin

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. — Jeff Bezos

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. — Mary Wesley

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it ... — Mary Hays

A slow band can be great. A slow 100-metres runner is just obsolete. — Gylve Nagell

Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn — Leopold Schefer

Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Expect of Man God, and he will appear to be a beast. Expect of Man a beast, and he will appear to be God. — Kedar Joshi

Perhaps our greatest concern is with families. The family is falling apart all over the world. The old ties that bound together father and mother and children are breaking everywhere. We must face this in our own midst. There are too many broken homes among our own. The love that led to marriage somehow evaporates, and hatred fills its place. Hearts are broken, children weep ... — Gordon B. Hinckley

Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown. — Jeff VanderMeer

Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).
Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. — Woodrow Wilson

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food ... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking. — Cat Cora

'Greedy gut' is my middle name. I love food, and I love parts. — Geraldine Page

Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet table. We want pain to stay in its own little section, want to keep it from spilling over into the other parts of life. Just like . lunch trays. Keep pain in its own little compartment. — Philip Gulley

We want freedom,'" I say. "'We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.'" "Say — Angie Thomas