Eve Merriam Quotes

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • School
  • Home
  • Law

• In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Rare

• In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Literature
  • King

• Care and pity are two different things.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Different
  • Care
  • Two

• Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• I love design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Design
  • I Love

• I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
  • Understand
  • Fitness

• I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Work
  • Dignity
  • Queen

• If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Doing
  • Saying
  • Authenticity

• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I like to hunt. We went to a nuclear power and hunted in the woods next to it. I got a 34-point rabbit in there. We always go at night. It's easier. All the critters glow in the dark out there.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Power
  • Night
  • Dark

• Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • May
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass. Rolling Stone (November 26, 1992).

  

  Layne Staley
  • November

• I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.

  

  Angus Young
  • Music
  • Mind
  • King

• Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Death
  • Bureaucracy

• With Zipcar, consumers avoid the upfront cost of buying a car, not to mention gas, insurance, and repairs. Plus, they reduce the number of polluting vehicles on the road. Suddenly the planet-smart carless option is also the convenient money-saving option.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • Money
  • Car
  • Road

• On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Certain

• We see China becoming an unstoppable force. It's a huge threat and a huge opportunity.

  

  Martin Naughton
  • Opportunity

• Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • College

• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  

  Eve Merriam
  • War
  • Dream
  • Birth