Paul Fussell Quotes

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

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• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

  

  E. B. White
  • Man
  • Planet
  • Club

• I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Peace

• We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Home
  • Debate
  • France

• Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Money
  • Help

• The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Appreciation
  • Lie
  • Roots

• Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Time
  • Serious
  • Only

• I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Film
  • Care
  • Get

• I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Men
  • Moral

• Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Great
  • Personality

• Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • God
  • Death
  • Earth

• I've got to literally write my own ticket.

  

  Kay Cannon

• Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Present
  • Communication

• Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.

  

  Garbine Muguruza

• In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• We love peace, but not peace at any price.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold
  • Peace

• I love being outside with my boys, playing tag or trying to keep up with them.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Up
  • Trying

• I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Fear

• Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Done
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

  

  Fred Couples
  • Nice
  • Senior

• Inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Life
  • Nice

• One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not all up to me to do everything myself. There's always that fear that you'll run out of stuff. The most difficult part for me is writing lyrics, and that starts to get difficult after you've written, like, 120 songs.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

  

  Paul Fussell
  • Nice
  • Secret
  • Fought