Flowers Of War Memorable Quotes & Sayings

There are two roads to destruction: one is to receive everything you ever asked for, and the other is to receive nothing that you have asked for.' I became, by circumstance, the rare creature who in one fractured lifetime lived out both of these tragic scenarios, and it changed me. — Kathleen Hewtson

It feels as though there is a gaping hole in the middle of everything. The decades of my mother's life here with Thalia, they are dark, vast spaces to me. I have been absent. Absent for all the meals Thalia and Mama have shared at this table, the laughs, the quarrels, the stretches of boredom, the illnesses, the long string of simple rituals that make up a lifetime. Entering my child-hood home is a little disorienting, like reading the end of a novel that I'd started, then abandoned, long ago. — Khaled Hosseini

Perhaps all great loves are that, a secret that can't be shared. — Joe Haldeman

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. — R. Buckminster Fuller

If I were white, I could capture the world. — Dorothy Dandridge

I always thought you had you a bad case of head-up-your-ass-itis. -Kramisha — P.C. Cast

When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women. — Julie Burchill

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind. — Elie Wiesel

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny

There are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that — Brad Paisley

Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock. — Edward Said

I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over. — Drew Barrymore

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself. — Rupert Everett

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. — Michelle Obama