Rableaf Quotes & Sayings

One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it can be witnessed, recounted, and replayed like the launching of a rocket. War is a human activity far too large to be contained in the experience of a single reporter in a single place and time in any meaningful way. When it comes, it happens to everyone. Everything is in its path. Yet this is the allure of war reporting, the chance of acquiring some personal mother lode of truth to beam back to the living rooms of a waiting nation. The fear that comes from reporting on a war is as much a fear of missing this mother load as it is of being injured or killed in battle, and it sets reporters apart from the people who have to fight wars. Soldiers have their own agonies to think about as a battle approaches. Missing the war is not generally one of them. — John Hockenberry

I probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done, because I'm going to have to have the support of others to grow my foundation. — Tiger Woods

My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun. — Tom Moody

When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage. — Sherwood Smith

The puffed and infected ego underlay all, positive that all eyes were upon him or her, positive that he or she was starring in a great drama; the outcome was a thing for which untold millions waited with held breath. Such — Stephen King

When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it. — Julianne Moore

Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience. — Jay Asher

The half is greater than the whole. — Hesiod

I earned my strength when a sick psychotic man took the perfect world I built for myself, shook it like a snow globe, and smashed it up against a wall. I have earned every breath I've ever took, while being choked at the hands of a madman. — Christine Zolendz

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen. — Bruce Coville

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made. — Jim Talent

Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered ... — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity. — Frederick Lenz

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone's connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing's broken? — Trenton Lee Stewart

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows. — Jose Marti