"Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible."

-- Bruce Catton

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.”
“Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?”
“Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.”
“Labor union members, especially white men, are the target group for Donald Trump. He's had a lot of success in getting their support. So, it's not at all clear that labor unions will be able to do as much as they once could to get their members to actually vote for the candidate the union itself supports.”
“What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.”
“The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.”

Source : 'Clinging to the Wreckage' (1982) ch. 7
“To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.”

Source : Susanna Tamaro (2010). “Follow Your Heart”, p.141, Random House
“Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.”

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