"What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior."

-- Florence Nightingale

#Selfish Quotes #War Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.”
“I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?”
“Ah, there should be a young man, ein schone Junge carrying Blumen, a bouquet of roses. There should be cold Rhine wine and Strausswaltzes, and on the long way home kisses in the shadow of an archway, like a Cinderella.”
“It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?”
“Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.”
“My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.”

Source : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 18
“In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.”

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