Deadliness In Wars Quotes & Sayings

To slay, to love - the greatest enterprises of life upon a man! And I have no experience of either. — Joseph Conrad

When our stoicism interferes with our humanity, we risk developing a wooden emotional life and an equally wooden personality. In contrast, the realization that our ability to work through pain makes us stronger than all of our efforts to exorcise it may in the long run alleviate its burden. It may enable us to take up our destiny as creatures whose very vulnerability renders us capable of inspired and truly awe-inspiring love. — Mari Ruti

Resentment was the hinge of her personality. — Colson Whitehead

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof. — Dogen

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team. — Michael Wilbon

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart. — Janette Rallison

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war. — Martin Firrell

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly. — Marty Rubin

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. — Stephen Mangan

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person. — Carrie Fisher

I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful. — Gary Holland