"You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray youâ€™ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go."

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Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

Eugene B. Sledge

#Cheer Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Home Quotes

“You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.”
“If we look to the future, when we talk about outsourcing jobs, when we talk about global competitiveness and our efficiency, none of that matters very much unless we have appropriate training and education for our young people today who are the workforce of tomorrow. It is an economic reality, and we are failing.”

Source : Bill Frist (2006). “Bill Frist: A Senator Speaks Out on Ethics, Respect, and Compassion”, p.86, Xulon Press
“If you want to know what your thoughts were like in the past, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will look like in the future, look at your thoughts today.”
“A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.”
“You know there's always that kid in your class â€” and every class has one â€” the kid who draws all the time and is really good? That was not me. I was a lousy draftsman. But as soon as I figured out that I could make things come alive, like using the corners of my math book to make flipbooks, I was hooked.”
“That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.”

Source : "Garry Trudeau: What a Long, Strange Strip It’s Been". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/february 2007.
“I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Aug 17, 2014
“If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of.”

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