"...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated."

-- Tim O'Brien

#Land Quotes #Water Quotes #Together Quotes

“When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.”
“Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead story unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when peace meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.”
“A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.”

Source : "James Van Der Beek hunts for the truth in 'Formosa Betrayed'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. February 8, 2010.
“I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.”
“Much of the writing I do about the female body is to remind women, myself included, that they make life and they make death. That strikes me as a far more powerful stance than the weak lies told about mothering.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
“But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.”
“Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the one hand, and rob and debase the government on the other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with the filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap the sacred folds of the Stars and Stripes about them and [about] their blatant hypocrisy to the world.”

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