Militarism Historian Quotes & Sayings

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink. — Plato

Life is the sum of habits, only occasionally disturbed by a thought. — Anonymous

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. — Siri Hustvedt

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you ... — Carol Alt

Justine shook her head mournfully. "I do not fear to die," she said; "that pang is past. God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven! — Mary Shelley

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65. — Neil Sheehan

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something ... that is not easy to do. — Stanley Donen

And where does god get the nerve from
telling people how to rear their children
when he drowned his own? — A.J. Beirens

There are a thousand ways of inhabiting it, but the aether, that in-between, is always what it is; and ghosts, spirits, the souls of lucid dreamers squeeze past each other in complex asomatic ecology. Who better to close in on Wati the bodiless subversive than bodiless forces of the law? — China Mieville

Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom. — James Wright

Pork and chicken grease, the aromatics of choice for the Cajun. — Ken Wheaton

Every since I got sick, all I've done is think about how everyone else is feeling. — Amy Reed

I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box. — Richard Simmons