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lonely lying weird
When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy. Michael Assael
lonely kids way
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies. Rob Sheffield
lonely song world
A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only. Richard Wilbur
lonely self white
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness Richard Wright
lonely loneliness years
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. Russell Baker
lonely art jobs
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator. Trudi Canavan
lonely regret childhood
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. Truman Capote
lonely good-day writing
Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work. William Zinsser
lonely fun writing
Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.
war
I was a lieutenant in World War II.
war blessing games
No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.
war
I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war. Dito Montiel
war connections speak
Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university. Robert E. Lee
war men ideas
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians. Richard Perle
war character winter
. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere. Richard Paul Evans
war generations vietnam
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. Richard Holbrooke
war thinking ideas
After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking. Rebecca West
war fighting men
For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.
ocean men moon
Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.
ocean ignorance swimming
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
ocean shore touched
All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know
ocean different sometimes
I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains. Russell Brand
ocean psychology important
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important. Roz Savage
ocean might failing
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
ocean law practice
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore. Rose George
ocean conservation our-future
We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future. William J. Clinton
ocean sea roots
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. William James