"in his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ..."

-- Jane Porter

#Dream Quotes #War Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“I'm always confused when people say how much they miss 'Invader Zim' because the show never stopped running in my head, and then I remember everyone else isn't in my head.Â I try to imagine the world for all those people who donâ€™t know what Zim's been up to since the show went off the air and it makes me shudder. How can people live that way? Hopefully this comic helps make the world a better place.”

Source : "Oni Presses Teases Invader Zim Comic" by Jesse Schedeen, www.ign.com. February 20, 2015.
“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves”
“We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.”

Source : Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)
“For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.”
“For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.”
“The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.”
“Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.”
“Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.”

Source : Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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