Frontul De Vest Quotes & Sayings

Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held it in contempt. Love and contempt were not incompatible. In fact, one was rarely found without the other. — Robert Boswell

What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during that stage of fighting, we were not targets. After the war itself, during the first month or two, it was extremely safe. We could go anywhere in Iraq, talk to anyone, and didn't have to worry about anything. — Yaroslav Trofimov

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding? — Shirley Jackson

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing-if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination. — Hal Borland

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought. — Cynthia Voigt

As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake. — Ed Yong

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones. — Joss Whedon

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it. — A.J. Muste

I really learned it all from mothers. — Benjamin Spock