"Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results."

-- George F. Kennan

#Strong Quotes #War Quotes #Military Quotes

“Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?”
“As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy.”
“Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.”
“Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.”

Source : Anita Shreve (1999). “Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I read good. I was an English major.”
“Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.”
“The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his metaphors? Through his metaphors, he risks saying it partially and obscurely, and risks saying nothing at all. But the risk must be taken, for direct statement leads to abstraction and threatens to take us out of poetry altogether.”
“The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly."”

Source : "Look at Your World".

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