"The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Chance Quotes

“She's more even -[daughter China] - I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.”

Source : "The Joan Rivers Show", 1990.
“I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.”
“Old age is a powerful disguise.”
“Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Notes From The Midnight Driver”, p.248, Scholastic Inc.
“Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.”
“If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.”
“Once a champion, always a champion.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.”

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