Andrew Bacevich Quotes
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.
Andrew Bacevich
Quotes to Explore
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
Eason Jordan
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.
Dan Stevens
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
P. J. Soles
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
Ice T
Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.
Natalie Massenet
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As President Bush just said, a great nation doesn’t shy from the truth. It strengthens us. It emboldens us. It should fortify us.
Barack Obama
They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
Samuel Beckett
To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw - to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we were not afraid of blackening our teeth or riddling our lungs with cancer - if we were a dauntless race of men with strong digestions - we would be able to devour life without the aid of these over-civilized devices.
Quentin Crisp
The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
Wallace Stevens
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
Florence King
I take being a role model very seriously.
Paula Creamer