Barness Papas Quotes & Sayings

Some were bound to me by vows and some by blood, but they were all my brothers. — George R R Martin

No army which concerns itself with politics is ever of any value. Its discipline is poor, its morale is rotten and its reliability and efficiency is [sic] bound to be of the lowest order. You only have to look at certain foreign armies which are constantly mixed up in politics to realize the truth of what I have to say.1 - Sir Roy Bucher — Tilak Devasher

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine
something like being blind, while people talk of the sky. — George Eliot

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name. — Brian W. Aldiss

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley

Herpes B is a very rare infection in humans but a nasty one, with a case fatality rate of almost 70 percent among those few dozen people infected during the twentieth century (before recent breakthroughs in antiviral pharmaceutics) and almost 50 percent even since then. When — David Quammen

what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache? — Natasha Trethewey