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daughter mother men
In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry. Maria Edgeworth
war world saving
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
war what-if ifs
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? Allen Ginsberg
war lying military
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. Allan Massie
war men soldier
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
war achievement president
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war. Allan Lichtman
war college soldier
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges Alistair Cooke
war drama memorable
More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.
war promise holy
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
war missing want
Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I? Alison McGhee
night seemed
Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me. Bobby Collins
night artist gone
Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures. Andy Goldsworthy
night forever looks
Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever. Michael Jackson
night connections clubs
I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that. Paula Poundstone
night talking crowds
I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.
night interesting lines
It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.
night
I like to work at night. Terry Southern
night eight perfect
The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me Neil Patrick Harris
night snow grease
When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown. Phyllis Diller