Sebastian Junger Quotes

I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

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• By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Society
  • Poetry

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Hand
  • Brain
  • Hands

• Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Family
  • Searching

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Why
  • Think
  • Know

• I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Tears
  • Actress

• I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Seriously
  • Stardom

• I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Commitment
  • Test

• I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Work
  • Dignity
  • Queen

• Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Play
  • Games
  • Opportunities

• When you make a promise, keep it.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Promise
  • Make

• The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Black
  • Quran

• On parle peu quand la vanité ne fait pas parler.

  

  Vanity

• The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • History

• A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Society

• There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

  

  Max Lucado
  • People
  • Weekend

• My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

  

  Carolyn Mackler
  • Experience
  • Compassionate
  • Sympathetic

• It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.

  

  Marly Youmans
  • Children
  • War
  • True

• I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • War
  • Realized