"All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder."

-- Obafemi Awolowo

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Order Quotes

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”
“To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tran- quilizing peace of God will never be far from us.”
“Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.”
“There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.
“Every time a woman runs, women win.”

Source : "The Palin Network" by Robert Draper, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2010.
“Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.”

Source : Annie Proulx (2011). “Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place”, p.190, Simon and Schuster
“The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.”

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