Starman Dc Quotes & Sayings

Here's how bizarre the war is that we're in in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn't want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass. — Jon Stewart

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. — Sarah Caldwell

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong. — Atul Gawande

So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To that extent, it can be (for all our good intentions) an impertinent- if not inappropriate- response. To set aside the sympathy we extend to others beset by war and murderous politics for a reflection on how our privileges are located on the same map as their suffering, and may- in ways we might prefer not to imagine- be linked to their suffering, as the wealth as some may imply the destitution of others, is a task for which the painful, stirring images supply only an initial spark. — Susan Sontag

True heroism consists of being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge to the combat.' Napoleon on board HMS Northumberland, 1815 — Andrew Roberts

He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and,far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguishing nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In those few seconds Bonnie screamed, a high shrill wail that haunted the men about to kill her for the rest of their lives. — Jeff Guinn

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts. — Joseph Alsop

Father
Break my heart for what breaks yours
Give me open hands and open doors
Put your light in my eyes and let me see
That my own little world is not about me — Matthew West

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like. — Volker Bertelmann

He was apparently a small man, according to Mr. Higgins, with girly features, curly hair . . . and the heart of a rascal. — James McBride

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us. — Arthur Miller