Pesquisador De Palavras Quotes & Sayings

But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded. As we have seen, researches that could be called scientific are still carried out for the purposes of war, but they are essentially a kind of daydreaming, and their failure to show results is not important. Efficiency, even military efficiency, is no longer needed. — George Orwell

And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places - if you do anything the people you went to school with can't do some of them will never forgive you. — L.M. Montgomery

Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed ... she had suspended Indian democracy for a few years but she also was the woman who had defeated Pakistan in war at a time when most male politicians in India had secretly feared fighting that war, so that here in India even today Indira Gandhi is called by Indian nationalists the only man ever to have governed India. — Aravind Adiga

Anyone who doubts the subjective flexibility of time should spend an afternoon walking through a minefield. — Gregory H. Murry

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time. — Andrew Bird

Each year I become more mindful of being thankful for each life experience. — Wally Amos

MADELEINE HERON stared with unfocused eyes at the gleaming gray coffin that held the body of her husband. — S.K. Epperson