Sebastian Junger Quotes

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Done
  • Down

• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Like
  • Film

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Practice

• It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Know
  • Me
  • Kind

• Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Same

• I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Believe
  • Cat

• We ask our neighbors in Saudi Arabia to stop hindering the rule of law and healthy economic development through the purchase of politicians and tribal leaders.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Law
  • Stop

• At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Freedom
  • Waiting
  • Sun

• Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Life
  • Remember

• He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Good
  • Son

• I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Mind
  • Business

• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

  

  James Truslow Adams
  • Real
  • Attitude

• North Korea not only wants unification, it absolutely has to have unification. That's really the only way this state can feel secure.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers

• When I was young, there was no such thing as YA. You simply went from reading children's novels to reading adult novels. So one year, I was reading Tove Jansson, and the next year, I was reading Stephen King.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Children
  • Reading
  • King

• I'm really tired of virtue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Tired
  • Virtue
  • Really

• My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I'd rather have the fish balls.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Alcohol

• Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Freedom
  • Feeling
  • Artists

• I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

  

  Mose Allison
  • Remember
  • Sometimes
  • Impression

• If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • War
  • Military
  • Crime