Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes. —Rex Stout More about this quote Tags: wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone knew grunts who'd gone crazy in the middle of a firefight, gone crazy on patrol, gone crazy back at camp, gone crazy on R&R, gone crazy during their first month home. Going crazy was built into the tour; the best you could hope for was that it didn't happen around you, the kind of crazy that made men empty clips into strangers or fix grenades on latrine doors. That was really crazy; anything less was almost standard, as standard as the vague prolonged stares and involuntary smiles, common as ponchos or 16s or any other piece of war issue. —Michael Herr More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how? —Joan Baez More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind. —Oprah Winfrey More about this quote Tags: wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything in war is barbaric. . . . But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. —Ellen Key More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards. —Kin Hubbard More about this quote Tags: wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. —Karl Kraus More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse. —Chilo More about this quote Tags: wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. —George Ade More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. —Florence Nightingale More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. —Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. —Elaine Liner More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email