"... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones."

-- Mercedes Lackey

#People Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 109), 1985.
“Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt.”
“Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.”

Source : Richard Wilbur, William Butts (1990). “Conversations with Richard Wilbur”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Meaning, however, is no great matter.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.108
“I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.”

Source : Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.”
“There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.”
“There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there's value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren't compatible.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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