Learning In Wartime Quotes & Sayings

If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing. — Christopher Moore

You may be a good person, and some people will nonetheless still treat you terribly. We don't always get what we give, but that's fine, because you aren't giving it for them anyway, at least not exclusively. It's really all a statement by, about and for you. How you treat others is really about who you choose to be in this — Bryant McGill

Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person. — Vincent Van Gogh

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex. — Ruth Benedict

Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed. — Donald Freed

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. — Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food. — Robert Orben

Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style. — Orlando Bloom

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry", indecision when right was "caution", and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination. — Isaac Asimov

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities. — Tom Cruise

God is merciful to people who have not measured up; merciful to people who have turned from God toward their own desires; merciful to people whom he created to glorify him but who found the god of perfection more alluring than the perfect God. — Amy Baker

The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to justify imperialism and slavery. They're categories intended for the enforcement of power. They were never intended to be psychologically satisfying in the way we want them to be. — Jess Row