Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.
Soren KierkegaardI have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria RilkeMost of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. [on being an American]
Pete HamillThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his
George PattonAlfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
Pierre CurieThe fact is that democracy brings with it a serious element of responsibility and all parties have to accept that fact to move forward.
Daniel GreenbergPeople who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Malcolm ForbesBaseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror.
George CarlinPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur SchopenhauerI was quite excited to play here as I had a couple of really good practise sessions as soon as I got back to Belgium and was looking forward to getting out there and playing uninjured again.
Kim ClijstersInstead of a clear call for repentance we have been offered warms words of sentimentality for those who have shown no godly sorrow for their actions.
Peter AkinolaIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H G WellsDoubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert PikeTo run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
AristotleYour sex shouldn't matter when it comes to sport. If you put in the effort to train hard, whether you are male or female, you deserve the rewards.
Rain MakoI have always had a lot of respect for him and the way he has handled this with me only increases that [on Clive Woodward]
Jonny WilkinsonAs I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.
John KerryOne hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William JamesIn the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.
David CameronSo, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!
Trey ParkerOne warm evening in August 1937 a girl in love stood before a mirror.
Joyce OatesA noble deed is a step towards heaven
Josiah Gilbert HollandWork is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George SandWarm words from David Cameron cannot wipe out the memories of 18 years of Tory government that left a legacy in our towns and cities of homelessness, repossessions and mass unemployment.
John PrescottStyle is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert FrostDuring the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Thomas HobbesWhen he gets back, I'll have to tell him he's grown. [on Warren Hegg, a sledging victim]
Dominic CorkWar is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Georges ClemenceauIt was a great honour to play the Doctor, but I didn't quite realise how much of an honour until years afterwards when it still carried on and people still adored it.
Sylvester MccoyI have put in a lot of hard work and in the end realised that I have a lot to look forward to, and a lot of people to thank too.
William GreenWar to the knife.
Jose De PalafoxHe is not just any old Tory MP - he is the architect of the Tory tax and spending plans over the last two years [on unheard of and unknown sacked Tory MP, Howard Flight]
John ReidAll art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter PaterI'll be lookng at video footage of McGrath and Warne the closer we get to the matches [Ashes]
Andrew StraussLet him who desires peace, prepare for war
Flavius Vegetius RenatusRevolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
Arthur KoestlerI have always had belief in my ability but Shane Warne has helped me with my thinking too
Chris TremlettIf you bowl the opposition out cheaply in warm up games, you feel underprepared [ah, so that's why he hasn't done it for five years!]
Steve HarmisonBeware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
Henry David ThoreauIf our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
Hamilton FishIf I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor BorgePolitics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt GingrichAfterwards, in the dusty little corners where London's secret servants drink together, there was argument about where the Dolphin case history should really begin
John Le CarreThe few really great - the major novelists... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life (The Great Tradition)
F R LeavisIn theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz KafkaBeware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
DemosthenesThe century on which we are entering - the century which will come out of this war - can be and must be the century of the common man. (Speech, 8 May 1942)
Henry WallaceFrance is doing everything it can, but the problem is that it is impossible to stop Bush from pursuing his logic of war to the end
Jacques ChiracThe Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews, Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here.
Jerry Seinfeld
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