Quotes of the day, July 1

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

• Strange
• Believed
• Good Deal

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

William Broyles, Jr.

• Death
• Moments
• Edges

I'm just not made for that kind of live audience where you don't create a fourth wall.

Kristen Stewart

• Live
• Kind
• Wall

The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the universe. As Christians we owe our allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• God
• Universe
• Decision

Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method. So they allowed it to begin.

Edward Thomas

• Thinking
• Country
• Character