Stevie Smith Quotes

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Stevie Smith

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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

T. C. Boyle
- Time
- Heart
- Brain
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

H. R. McMaster
- American
- War
- Wisdom
I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

Yves Behar
- Time
- War
- Help
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Saint Teresa of Avila
- Care
- Body
- More
Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

Candice Swanepoel
- Care
- Learn
- Body
The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

Nancy Pelosi
- War
- History
- True