Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little hope is all people need to get through the day....
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Oliver Gaspirtz
Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.
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Anthony Ryan
If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to be thinking about it in the last minutes of their lives. That stood to reason. Life is awfully important so if you've given...
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Dalton Trumbo
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
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Guy Sajer
Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
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Walt Whitman
More Quotes By Lester B. Pearson
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it...
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
