Neal Bascomb Quotes

The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won’t you?

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• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Remorse

• If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Good
  • Love
  • Feeling

• There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Songs

• Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Hope
  • Look
  • Difficult

• I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Like
  • Fact
  • Glass

• If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Country
  • Professional

• The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Time
  • Different
  • Law

• I said, 'When you are on your deathbed, Erran, pray that you never meet me in the place you are going to.'

  

  Tanith Lee

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • God
  • Night
  • Light

• Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Time

• USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Why
  • Today
  • Question

• I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Friend
  • Door

• I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Marriage

• I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Past
  • Challenge

• As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

  

  Ben Silbermann
  • People
  • Cool
  • Basketball

• The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

  

  Homer
  • War
  • Sea
  • Battle

• The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Family
  • Money
  • Truth

• The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won’t you?

  

  Neal Bascomb
  • War
  • Understand
  • Verse