Things They Carried By Tim Obrien Quotes & Sayings

Emma had been given her own room and so had Julian, but he was hardly ever in it. Drusilla and Octavian were still waking up every night screaming, and Julian had taken to sleeping on the floor of their room, pillow and blanket piled up next to Tavvy's crib. There was no high chair to be had, so Julian sat on the floor opposite the toddler on a food-covered blanket, a plate in one hand and a despairing look on his face. Emma — Cassandra Clare

But this too is true: stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there. — Mark Harmon

We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and, in a way, absolutistic one-valued statements. But when we fight absolutism, we quite often establish, instead, some other dogma equally silly and harmful. For instance, an active atheist is psycho-logically as unsound as a rabid theist. — Alfred Korzybski

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I've always said, 'If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.' — Donald Trump

I will be a good wife," she thought, "that all the earth will know there is a God in Israel. — Lois T. Henderson

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief. — Franz Kafka

MOST PEOPLE think acting is make-believe. Like it's a big game where people put on costumes and feign kisses or stab wounds and then pretend to gasp and die. They think it's a show. They don't understand that acting is becoming someone else, changing your thoughts and needs until you don't remember your own anymore. You let the other person invade everything you are and then you turn yourself inside out, spilling their identity onto the stage like a kind of bloodletting. — Mindy Mejia

The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't any — Ayn Rand

We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all. — Jackie Speier

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho. — Harmon Killebrew