"Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century."

-- Lord Mountbatten

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Fabric Quotes

“Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.”

Source : Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors”, p.213, Beacon Press
“Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?”
“I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.”
“Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.”

Source : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.233, Random House
“Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.”
“I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.”
“If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.”
“I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.”

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