"I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize."

-- Rick Atkinson

#Home Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Office Quotes

“Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor native judgment than members of better educated groups. Thus, they need stricter moral guidance from society.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“If I had multiple lives, I'd like to do many things, including being a homicide investigator. I'm not brave enough to chase people and draw down on them. Having spent time with that, it can be an incredibly terrifying job.”
“The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.”
“As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
“I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.”
“When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.39, Penguin

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