Solid Snake War Quotes & Sayings

I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that. — Paul Haggis

Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation. — Bill Willingham

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I sat at my bedroom window after I changed; the cashew tree was so close I could reach out and pluck a leaf if it were not for the silver-colour crisscross of mosquito netting. The bell-shaped yellow fruits hung lazily, drawing buzzing bees that bumped against my window's netting. I heard Papa walk upstairs to his room for his afternoon siesta. I closed my eyes, sat still, waiting to hear him call Jaja, to hear Jaja go into his room. But after long, silent minutes, I opened my eyes and pressed my forehead against the window louvers to look outside.9 — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Life is made of these moments - of one's physical being moving through time and space - and we string them together into a story, and that story becomes our life. — Noah Hawley

Sometimes it is more victorious to lose than to win. — Dejan Stojanovic

It was like seeing someone who wore a striped tie or parted his hair on the left - a detail, but not a telling one. — David Sedaris

All games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope to do, the eternal truth that for every ladder you climb, a snake is waiting just around the corner; and for every snake, a ladder will compensate. But it's more than that; no mere carrot-and-stick affair; because implicit in the game is the unchanging twoness of things, the duality of up against down, good against evil; the solid rationality of ladders balances the occult sinuosities of the serpent; in the opposition of staircase and cobra we can see, metaphorically, all conceivable oppositions, Alpha against Omega, father against mother; here is the war of Mary and Musa, and the polarities of knees and nose ... but I found, very early in my life, that the game lacked one crucial dimension, that of ambiguity - because, as events are about to show, it is also possible to slither down a ladder and climb to triumph on the venom of a snake ... — Salman Rushdie

I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social occasion in Ireland will start shouting and arguing. When the Yeats family lived in Bedford Park, they had to go round to the neighbours to say, 'You might think we are fighting, but this is the way we talk to each other.' — Tom Paulin

You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them. — Stephen Vincent Benet