"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter."

-- Henry Adams

#Broken Heart Quotes #Broken Promises Quotes #Matter Quotes

“If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.”
“The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.”
“They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing . . . I bought the food for everyone.”
“My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.”
“Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.”

Source : "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography".
“Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?”
“Justice is a jagged road.”

Source : "Law & Order: Criminal Intent". Crime, Drama, Mystery, 2001–2011.
“My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.”

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