Dull The Pain With Fantasy Quotes & Sayings

Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It's not clear if we can even maintain our embassy in Yemen, let alone conduct operations against AQAP. And second, because growing Iranian hegemony is a mortal threat to our allies and interests in the entire Middle East. — Charles Krauthammer

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry. — Rick Perlstein

Let there be children and old people but few whose occupation is neither hope nor memory. Let there have been immigration at some point: enough to fill the convenience stores, the foreign restaurants, but let it be forgotten. Let the children be all in school, a breath held in, released at 3 o'clock across the park. Let the town's rhythm be unquestioned. Let me be single: no children, no family. Let me not fit in. — Joanna Walsh

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition. — Harry Shearer

War is advocated by those who fail to understand the horrible enormity of it." Captain Hank Bracker — Hank Bracker

I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal. — Michael Franti

Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy. — Martha Beck

Purposefully owning less begins to take us out of the unwinnable game of comparison. — Joshua Becker

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place. — Pat Benatar

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon ... — Joseph Plaskett

The cafeteria in the Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world - and forever it shall be - with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped away from suffering children to have a grilled cheese sandwich. — Aleksandar Hemon

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.
Raspberry Jam — Angus Wilson

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company. — Don Henley