Joseph Heller Quotes

"Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for."

Joseph Heller

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• Dying
• Sacrilegious

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• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Men
  • Magic
  • Blood

• When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • English
  • Thought

• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • Know
  • Care

• I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Men
  • Movies
  • Tired

• There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Country
  • Million
  • Per

• We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Learn
  • Model

• When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Country
  • Antique
  • Flea Markets

• If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Men
  • American
  • Death

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Country
  • Bank
  • West

• This country is conducive to making money. Once you learn this lesson and make your first deal, you will really appreciate the tools available to you in the United States, the tools that will help you 'boot-strap' yourself into a large income.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Country
  • Money
  • Help

• If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Live
  • Country
  • Culture

• In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Men
  • Same

• Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Country
  • Listening
  • Enjoy

• We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Country
  • Help
  • Small

• Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,An old man in a draughty houseUnder a windy knob.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Wind

• The coverage is the war. If there were no coverage, there'd be no war. Yes, the newsmen and the mediamen around the world are actually the fighters, not the soldiers anymore.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World
  • War

• I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

  

  George Clooney
  • inspirational
  • Firsts
  • Happened

• "Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for."

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Men
  • Country
  • Dying