The Post Birthday World Quotes & Sayings

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings. — Walter Dean Myers

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another. — A.J. Darkholme

Let's face it: I am not a professional runner. — Jo Brand

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity. — Marshall Field

I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not. — Christopher Walken

It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them — Lionel Shriver

Can honor be expected of a man who is preparing to storm the city of his birth? — Salman Rushdie

Common to the many theories about the birth trauma is the assumption that the feelings produced by this event were recorded and reside in some form in the brain. This assumption is supported by the great number of repetitious dreams of the "drainage pipe" variety — Thomas A. Harris

People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid. — Irvine Welsh

Once more, the joyful character of the eucharistic gathering must be stressed. For the medieval emphasis on the cross, while not a wrong one, is certainly one-sided. The liturgy is, before everything else, the joyous gathering of those who are to meet the risen Lord and to enter with him into the bridal chamber. And it is this joy of expectation and this expectation of joy that are expressed in singing and ritual, in vestments and in censing, in that whole 'beauty' of the liturgy which has so often been denounced as unnecessary and even sinful.
Unnecessary it is indeed, for we are beyond the categories of the 'necessary.' Beauty is never 'necessary,' 'functional' or 'useful.' And when, expecting someone whom we love, we put a beautiful tablecloth on the table and decorate it with candles and flowers, we do all this not out of necessity, but out of love. And the Church is love, expectation and joy. — Alexander Schmemann

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet. — Nikos Kazantzakis

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. — Anna Quindlen