"Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other."

-- Janet Morris

#Commitment Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Should Quotes

“I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.”

Source : Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”
“I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.”
“I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.”

Source : Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004
“Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.”
“I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people-but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.”

Source : "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Interview with Steve Keull and Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.
“Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.”

Source : "Director Marshall on Pirates 4" by Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. December 14, 2010.
“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”
“It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.”

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