Sjaalsteek Quotes & Sayings

Rivalry adds so much to the charm of one's conquests. — Louisa May Alcott

Once war was considered the business of soldiers, international relations the concern of diplomats. But now that war has become seemingly total and seemingly permanent, the free sport of kings has become the forced and internecine business of people, and diplomatic codes of honor between nations have collapsed. Peace in no longer serious; only war is serious. Every man and every nation is either friend or foe, and the idea of enmity becomes mechanical, massive, and without genuine passion. When virtually all negotiation aimed at peaceful agreement is likely to be seen as 'appeasement,' if not treason, the active role of the diplomat becomes meaningless; for diplomacy becomes merely a prelude to war an interlude between wars, and in such a context the diplomat is replaced by the warlord. — C. Wright Mills

Live just because or live your life for a cause — Tavis Smiley

Life is proposed to me
My name is passed on to me
My body is imposed on me — Edouard Leve

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life's journey. — David O. McKay

Diversity is a strength. It's like the shrieking radios permanently attached to bright people's ears in the Kurt Vonnegut story "Harrison Bergeron," to prevent them from using their superior intelligence. Contrary to everything you've heard, never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a disaster. — Ann Coulter

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch. — Honore De Balzac

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. — Herman Wouk

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Remember ... Violence only breeds violence & hate breeds hate ... if we want to better humanity we must teach this to our future generations from
young. — Timothy Pina

I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision. — George W. Bush

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw