Almendros Y Quotes & Sayings

At the battle of Waterloo, men formed squares into which the wounded were brought for medical care. At the height of the battle, in the madness of the cannonading and death, the riderless horses of the cavalry, the caisson horses of the slaughtered gun crews attempted to penetrate the squares to be saved by the humans. And in the First World War, men subjected to unparalleled mayhem were stricken more by the plight of the horses than anything else. There is a special grief for the innocent caught up in mankind's murderous follies. — Thomas McGuane

Well, what was wrong with it?"
"We don't know," says James.
"That's a stupid rotten answer."
"Life is sometimes rotten and stupid. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife. — Elizabeth George

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all. — Matthew Scully

The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That's what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues. — Andrew Klavan