Pentagon Usa Quotes & Sayings

How long are you going to let yourself be dragged passively by the plot? You had flung yourself into the action, filled with adventurous impulses: and then? Your function was quickly reduced to that of one who records situations decided by others, who submits to whims, finds himself involved in events that elude his control. Then what use is your role as protagonist to you? If you continue lending yourself to this game, it means that you, too, are an accomplice of the general mystification. — Italo Calvino

Your gift can make room for you. — Tyler Perry

In that other life, I am the center of my world. Of course, I love and care about other people - many other people. But at the end of the day, my thoughts and actions are mainly about managing my own life and my own emotions. Here, — Cynthia Swanson

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment. — Ruth Brown

The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan. — Thomas Keating

Only for a minute. I'll be right back." He plopped the baby in her lap and hopped to his feet. Wren held her at arm's length and frowned. She did not appreciate that, because she immediately began wailing.
"Here," Wren said, thrusting her in my direction. "Take the mutant baby. — Amy Tintera

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book. — Patrick O'Brian

He who pleases is of more importance to his fellow man than he who instructs. — Edgar Allan Poe

USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through. — Gore Vidal

There is hurt here that cannot be fixed by band-aids or poetry. — Sarah Kay

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years. — Julian Casablancas

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country. — Rand Paul

I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do. — Abbey Lincoln

Living at once inside and outside the framework, Hester is able to see the frame. — Carol Gilligan

And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are. — Liev Schreiber