Wartorn Quotes & Sayings

Don't worry about your studies. When you want to do them well you will do them superbly. But for the moment the main thing is to get what little happiness there is in this wartorn world because "these are only good old days" now. — Clare Boothe Luce

120. My mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung like a bird, in the center of empty air. — Sylvia Plath

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star. — Martin Amis

It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me. — Andrea Bocelli

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates. — Meg Whitman

When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about. — P.S. Bartlett

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because 'these are the good old days' now. — Clare Boothe Luce

Unless you begin to control your temper, to forget yourself, to kill your wild impulses, to be kind, to learn what love is--you'll never last!... — Zane Grey

You have to be very careful when involving yourself with someone else's karma. It can quickly become your karma too. — Brownell Landrum

I have always enjoyed watching women dress. The appeal isn't sexual. Most girls' first glimpse of private female life is watching their mothers dress and put makeup on. It makes sense that we'd find it comforting. Childhood fascinations often crystallize this way. Isn't beauty forever defined, in a sense, by the first things we found beautiful? Surely part of my pleasure results from the inundation of images that we all experience. But I also love ritual, and it is a mesmerizing one. I enjoy the ritual of dressing myself, too. It is a form of basking in a kind of femininity that I am opposed to as an ideal, but for better or worse, I think we all fetishize the female body, and intellectualization doesn't spare anyone the obsession. — Melissa Febos

I'm sitting here bored, ... trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery. — James Richardson

That's who we were, wartorn meadows on the verge of new growth. — Bernice L. McFadden