"I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs."

-- Benjamin Butler

#War Quotes #Rights Quotes #History Quotes

“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.”
“I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jack Black from Aug 18, 2013
“Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.”
“Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?”

Source : Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of Time: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
“When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.”
“I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.”
“In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.”
“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.”

Source : James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

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