"War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier."

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

#War Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Killing Quotes

“As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.”
“I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.”
“Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British Â£5 and they will borrow Â£25 and spend it.”
“Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.”
“The poetâ€™s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. Weâ€™re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.”
“That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.”
“I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.”

Source : "Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks : Entrepreneurial Skills, Stories, and Encouragement for Modern Girls". Book by Stacy Kravetz, Foreword, 1999.

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