Samarra Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps when the next Great War comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him. — George Orwell

Perfect days are just the world setting you up to rip you down. — Sue Lawson

Missions are hard. By this point in my quest, however, I had become comfortable with "hard," and I hope that if you've made it this far in the book, you have gained this comfort as well. Hardness scares off the daydreamers and the timid, leaving more opportunity for those like us who are willing to take the time to carefully work out the best path forward and then confidently take action. — Cal Newport

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged. — Joni Eareckson Tada

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone. — Dante Alighieri

Two things are to blame for our predicament, one a corollary of the other. The first reason is that we did not have enough troops in Samarra. The skill and courage of 150 American soldiers prevented chaos, but was never enough to fully secure a city of 120,000 people or maintain the rule of law [ ... ] Second, because of a lack of troops, American military leaders are forced to make a choice between mission objectives and self-preservation. — Pete Hegseth

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair. — Connie Willis

And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would.
Katherine cliffton
The English Patient — Michael Ondaatje

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage. — Ibn Warraq

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes. — Giambattista Valli

God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other? — Abdu'l- Baha

It was not easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. — Mahatma Gandhi

Don't cry," Samarra whispered, "Nothing ever happens to the brave. — Fatima Bhutto

To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born, — Michel Odent

The first non-European power that tried to send a military expedition to America was Japan. That happened in June 1942, when a Japanese expedition conquered Kiska and Attu, two small islands off the Alaskan coast, capturing in the process ten US soldiers and a dog. The Japanese never got any closer to the mainland. — Yuval Noah Harari

he acquired a more complete mastery of a spirit tamed by adversity, than his former experience had given him; and that he felt himself entitled to say firmly, though perhaps with a sigh, that the romance of his life was ended, and that its real history had now commenced. He was soon called upon to justify his pretensions to reason and philosophy. — Walter Scott