Eugene B. Sledge Quotes
As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.Eugene B. Sledge
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
Irrfan Khan -
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
Yogi Berra -
That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
Naomi Watts -
One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
Salman Khan -
On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
Aaron Paul -
I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
Ram Dass -
Mehr Licht!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Arthur Miller -
Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.
Adam Smith
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No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
Marcel Marceau -
I have so many messy moments.
Angela Kinsey -
Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.
Jennifer Pahlka -
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Alvin Ailey -
Growing up, I didn't just watch 'The Cosby Show.' I watched 'Growing Pains' and 'Family Ties,' too.
Lena Waithe -
At Berkeley, you wore a hoodie and pajamas and Birkenstocks, and that's swag. I was so thrown off. What I thought was cool wasn't cool no more, so I thought about what I actually liked. I started experimenting. I started wearing Birkenstocks. I wanted to dive into the culture.
Jaylen Brown
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I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.
Billy Al Bengston -
My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.
Katherine Heigl -
There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.
Terence Hardy -
As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.
Eugene B. Sledge