Quotes
Authors
Paul Hellyer

"Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, andÂ decided to shoot first andÂ ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to thoseÂ countries, when it itself can no longerÂ claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions ofÂ dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark."

-- Paul Hellyer

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Mean Quotes

“To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.”

Source : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
“She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.”
“Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We donâ€™t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be a shrug. For us, crazy happens. Better to sit back, enjoy the show, and drink the tea”
“If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.”

Source : "Commentary: Our tragedy and God's love for orphans" by Steven Curtis Chapman, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2008.
“If you've never been in a dumpster coated with industrial waste while someone stabs you with a piece of sharpened rebar, then you probably wouldn't understand.”

Source : S.G. Browne (2009). “Breathers: A Zombie's Lament”, p.33, Three Rivers Press
“If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”
“Each finger on your shooting hand is accountable to each shot. Just like each thought you think has some accountability to someone or somewhere.”
“There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.”

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