Ogden Morrow Quotes & Sayings

They are often brave, I'm sure, but they are stupid, too, because they give their lives for governments and causes that use their flesh and blood as mere chess pieces. Those governments always betray them or let them down in the long run. Nations neglect no men more shamefully than the heroes of their wars. — Gregory David Roberts

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion — Benjamin Franklin

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. — Stephen Hawking

My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. - Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24) — Jeanette Lynes

A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
Breathless mouths may summon;
I hail the superhuman;
I call it death-in-life and life-in-death. — William Butler Yeats

Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay. — David Mitchell

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat. — Mickey Mantle

I love you," he says again, "and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do. — Krista Ritchie

Hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more like to sink him. — Dean Koontz

Life itself is an art form. — Tyree Guyton

On the other hand I won't conceal the fact from anyone that once upon a time a little something happened to me. I saw a little something. But never except just that once. — Halldor Laxness

Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy. — Miguel El Portugues

I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases. — Gary Calamar

After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone. — Jennifer Smith

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost. — Buffalo Bill