Whooshing Heart Quotes & Sayings

The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a professional unit, the specialist function of a limited number of men, war remained a relatively harmless contest for power. But once it became everyman's duty to defend his home (or his political "rights") warfare was free to range wherever that home might be, and to attack every form of life and property associated with that home. — Herbert Read

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them — Stephen Covey

You can plan ahead, you just can't worry ahead — Ruth Winter

I hope you know Cash is in the kitchen making a to-do list for me and Elliot. You let him play boss for ten minutes and he suddenly thinks he's Hillary Clinton.'~ Leon Montgomery — Destiny Booze

Did I think I was doing God's work?" he said later. "No. But I did think market efficiency was something important for the economy. — Michael Lewis

That not-knowing might seem awful but it's not that bad because she knew lots of things in the way nobody teaches a dog to wag his tail or a person to feel hungry; you're born and you just know. Just as nobody one day would teach her how to die: yet she'd surely die one day as if she'd learned the starring role by heart. For at the hour of death a person becomes a shining movie star, it's everyone's moment of glory and it's when as in choral chanting you hear the whooshing shrieks. — Clarice Lispector