Anthony Swofford Quotes
If wars were fought only by the men on the ground, the men facing one another in real battle, most wars would end quickly and sensibly. Men are smart and men are animals, in that they don't want to die so simply for so little.
Anthony Swofford
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright
For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
Kajol
I will keep painting until I die.
Yayoi Kusama
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. Wells
Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
Gary Lineker
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
Haile Selassie
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
Malcolm X
Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
Camille Claudel
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah More
Only the young die good.
Oliver Herford
I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
Zendaya
The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
A. N. Wilson
Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.
Natsuki Takaya
I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'
La'Porsha Renae
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Men, you may all do as you damn please, but I'm a-goin' home.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
J. C. Ryle
Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
Eliphas Levi
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
Iain Sinclair
I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy
Scott Westerfeld
I've been every way there is to be.
Glen Campbell
If wars were fought only by the men on the ground, the men facing one another in real battle, most wars would end quickly and sensibly. Men are smart and men are animals, in that they don't want to die so simply for so little.
Anthony Swofford