"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Patriotism Quotes

“It's real hard to come up with something unique. We've seen just about everything over the last 10 years.”
“You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.”

Source : Randall Jarrell (1966). “The Lost World”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
“Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.”

Source : Mortimer Levitt, Theodore Levitt (1998). “Thinking About Management”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
“When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.”
“However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.”
“If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life.”
“We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.”
“Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.”

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