"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Country Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Dog Quotes

“I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.”
“In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.”

Source : "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.
“I can't sleep,I can't but when all else fails I just breath...”
“...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.”

Source : "A failure in generalship". armedforcesjournal.com. May 1, 2007.
“You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called 'swift-boating'.”

Source : "Media loves to hate Sarah Palin" by Howie Carr in Boston Herald, September 7, 2008.
“If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.”
“She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.”
“Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure clichÃ©. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates. ...”

Source : Paul Fussell (1982). “Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars”, p.38, Oxford University Press

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