Menges Group Quotes & Sayings

Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders. — Sebastian Junger

The idea of making the industry live up to its legal responsibility is not going to die. — John M Barry

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry. — Mary Butts

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people. — Joe Jamail

Life is a journey without plan or destination.
On the way we are preparing to plan and planning to return. — Debasish Mridha

It was beyond desolate: it was where desolation goes to be by itself. — Elizabeth Hand

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true ... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it. — Barry McGuire

What we do and what we take seriously can often be so far removed from what it is actually all about that it is laughable. We get bogged down in trivia, lost in irrelevant detail to such an extent that our life can whizz past and we don't even notice. By letting go of things that really aren't important, we can put ourselves back on the right track. And the best way to do that is through humor - laughing at ourselves, laughing at our situation, but never laughing at others - they're just as lost as we are and don't need to be laughed at. — Richard Templar

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed. — Thomas Carlyle

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. — Tom Robbins

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know? — Walter Kaufmann