"A bad peace is even worse than war."

-- Tacitus

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes

“This is wonderful for a young person, no matter what profession they're in. When you can see something and you can feel this attraction to it, then it becomes less of me trying to teach them as they teach themselves. They've got it and bang off they go.”
“If you witness (the problems in the world), your outlook on life will change. You will understand how fortunate and well-off you are, (â€¦). You will understand that you are so safe from the risk of air raids and landmines.”
“Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.”
“It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'”
“I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.”
“It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind...”
“I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.”
“They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.293, U of Nebraska Press

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