"Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?"

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#War Quotes #Long Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.”
“Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.”

Source : James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.64
“The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.”
“Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.”

Source : FaceBook post by Carl Hiaasen from Jan 07, 2015
“Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.”
“If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.
“Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.”
“I live to ride, and ride to live.”

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