Nomonhan Conflict Quotes & Sayings

The cops will break down your door to save you. God will break down your constitution. Brokenness is not the opposite of wholeness. It's how He gets in. — Kate McGahan

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor. — Leo Tolstoy

He talks and talks and talks. And if he isn't talking, he's smoking his smelly cigars all over the house. I'm so sick of the smell of cigar smoke I could just roll over and die."
"The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn't hold on to a cigar, his feet would leave the ground. We'd never see our Zooey again."
There were several experienced verbal stunt pilots in the Glass family, but this last little remark perhaps Zooey alone was coordinated well enough to bring in safely over a telephone. Or so this narrator suggests. And Franny may have felt so, too. In any case, she suddenly knew that it was Zooey at the other end of the phone. — J.D. Salinger

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess. — Anthony Michael Hall

The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on. — Kevin Powers

The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane. — Michael Burry

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature. — Gustave Flaubert

They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Friend. Before Mark, I'd known its definition. Now I knew its meaning. — Elizabeth Langston

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. — Robert Brault

The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition. — Theodore H. White

I have not met this person, and yet I hate him more than anything, for in him is everything I hate. — Ben Willoughby

The atmosphere is only about .035 percent carbon dioxide, — Cynthia Stokes Brown

But what is love, and what is life, if you do not let yourself live? — Primadonna Angela

Gambling, beer and football filled the horizons of their minds. — George Orwell