"After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost."

-- Steven Herrick

#War Quotes #Matter Quotes #Lost Quotes

“I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the time - and then they'll fight for better prison libraries or whatever. It's like they're missing the big picture. If I were in prison, of course I would prefer to be outside doing physical labour. It's not physical labour but prison life that kills a person. It's so bad inside that the outside jobs are often sought after. So, yeah, call them work crews and let them do it. At the same time the retributive side can feel the cons are being punished.”
“I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasnâ€™t working for me when it wasnâ€™t working. The world doesnâ€™t come crashing down when you speak the truth.”

Source : Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
“If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.”

Source : A. C. Green, Joann Cole Webster (1994). “Victory”
“Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.”

Source : "Know it all" by Stacy Schiff, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2006.
“Goat face is a horrible insult. My face is practically perfect in every way. In fact, from now on I demand to be called Beautiful Bryan.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 12, 2012
“Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.”
“Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.”
“We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.”

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