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War2 quotes
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school-
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." — Randall Jarrell · 1948Bad luck1 quote
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. — Cormac McCarthy · 2005Clothing1 quote
I am sorry if anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance at the Super Bowl. It was not intentional and is regrettable. — Justin Timberlake · 2004Cocaine1 quote
Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years. — Tallulah Bankhead · 1952Curation1 quote
All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896Dangerous world1 quote
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Death1 quote
For when the One Great Scorer
Comes to mark against your name,
He writes-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game. — Grantland Rice · 1941Drugs1 quote
Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years. — Tallulah Bankhead · 1952Fair play1 quote
For when the One Great Scorer
Comes to mark against your name,
He writes-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game. — Grantland Rice · 1941God's mercy1 quote
I went to the crossroad,
fell down on my knees.
Asked the Lord above,
"Have mercy, save poor Bob if you please." — Robert Johnson · 1937Human nature1 quote
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Hunting1 quote
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman. — Joseph Wood Krutch · 1956Legacy1 quote
For when the One Great Scorer
Comes to mark against your name,
He writes-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game. — Grantland Rice · 1941Man and the universe1 quote
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Man and war1 quote
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Media1 quote
All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896Newspapers1 quote
All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896Predator and prey1 quote
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Razing cities1 quote
In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school-
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." — Randall Jarrell · 1948Scars1 quote
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. — Cormac McCarthy · 1992Slavery1 quote
To be a slave was to be a human being under conditions in which that humanity was denied. They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was slavery. — Julius Lester · 1968Stories1 quote
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985The mysterious1 quote
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985The universe1 quote
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985The world1 quote
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Watergate1 quote
What did the president know and when did he know it? — Howard H. Baker, Jr. · 1973Winning1 quote
Winning isn’t everything...It’s the only thing. — Henry R. "Red" Sanders · 1948World War II1 quote
In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school-
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." — Randall Jarrell · 1948