327 quotes found
“Japan surprised almost everyone but Marty with their attack on Pearl Harbor,”
“War is a lie”
“Hitler initially served in the List Regiment engaged in a violent four-day battle near Ypres, in Belgian Flanders, with elite British professional soldiers of the initial elements of the British Ex...”
“I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.”
“I dont read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.”
“What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered...”
“You are aware that what they do, they do for the world, and the results are, of course, magnificent. But when you . . . read Douglas Adams. . . you feel you are, perhaps, the only person in the wor...”
“Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.”
“A bookshelf is a biography written by others.”
“Every old man that dies is a library that burns.”
“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love...”
“[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.”
“Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this.”
“Every Day is Canada Day for new Canadians”
“The point of school, after all, isnt to do homework. The point of school is to learn. It was a mistake to assume that teachersor anyone else, for that matterautomatically knew what was best for me....”
“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.”
“If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.”
“It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full.”
“In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.”
“But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.”
