Famous Prisoner Of War Quotes & Sayings

When a modest man praises himself, people listen. — Mason Cooley

I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them. — Bob Ehrlich

The brick is neither here nor there,' interrupted the stranger in an imposing fashion, 'it never merely falls on someone's head from out of nowhere. In your case, I can assure you that a brick poses no threat whatsoever. You will die another kind of death.
'And you know just what that will be?' queried Berlioz with perfectly understandable irony, letting himself be drawn into a truly absurd conversation. 'And can you tell me what that is?'
'Gladly,' replied the stranger. He took Berlioz's measure as if intending to make him a suit and muttered something through his teeth that sounded like 'One, two.. Mercury in the Second House ... the moon has set ... six-misfortune ... evening-seven ... ' Then he announced loudly and joyously, 'Your head will be cut off! — Mikhail Bulgakov

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now. — Peter York

The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning. — Fulton J. Sheen

Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed. — Auliq Ice

It seems to me, that no matter what we do, no matter what choices we make, there isn't a happy ending waiting for us at the end of the long road."

"But that doesn't mean we give up. It doesn't mean we stop fighting. — Danielle L. Jensen

Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does. — Holly Black

Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life. — Frederick Lenz

Common sense in reflecting on these subjects, I assured my friend with some warmth, is merely a stupid absence of imagination and mental flexibility. — H.P. Lovecraft

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. — Steven Morrissey

Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason. — Immanuel Kant

You're saying the media is dangerous, immoral, and antidemocratic?" "Well . . . yes," Henderson said. "They don't recognize it in themselves, but they're basically criminals. In the classic sense of that word. — John Sandford

What if at school you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to pain a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it ... Of course this sounds ridiculous, but this is how math is taught. — Edward Frenkel

I've always liked what the Navajos say when they part. They never say 'Goodbye.' They say 'Go in beauty.' — Irene Sharaff