Autrys Quotes & Sayings

Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain fought and certainly the most expensive. Its climax was total victory. Yet there was no parade, no medals, no colours hung in cathedrals. The Cold War saw no battles and cost almost no blood. Where there is no blood there is no glory and hence no history. Asked What did you do in the war, Daddy?, I could say only that I paid my taxes and left it at that. — Simon Jenkins

If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family. — Desmond Tutu

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life. — Cher

But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings
That fill the sky with silver glitterings! — John Keats

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings. — Noomi Rapace