"A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered. It doesn't help if you're a soldier. The effect is the same."

-- Paula McLain

#War Quotes #People Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“I play well with everybody.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.”
“A leader always has one major message, and this weaves into everything he or she does. It remains the primary focus. A leader is to some degree aÂ prophet, a person with a message. Great leader [sic] see things that others donâ€™t. They preach it until others can see it as well. Their message supports the mission. A leader is a preacher, a person who communicates the fire of the mission. Not all preachers are leaders, but all great leaders will be preachers of one sort or another.”
“[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.”
“I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.”
“Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter.”
“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”
“The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.”

Source : Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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