Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurell K. Hamilton

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

Joyce Carol Oates

Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the blood rushes out happily in the warm water as if kin to it, the same tender substance. Rising a new person transformed with an icy sense of error I go to the sink and turn on cold water which is not friendly to blood. The cut is deeper than imagined.

Joyce Carol Oates

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Joan Didion

We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

Jim Morrison

Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .

Erich Segal

We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)

Eric Sevareid

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

John Irving

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

John Irving

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

Debby Ryan

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Nick Lowe

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

George Carey

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

Winston Churchill

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

Winston Churchill

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

Winston Churchill

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

Rudy Giuliani

I see a comparison between the two [Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump]. Peace through strength. What Chris Matthews don't grasp is that day Donald Trump gave a speech in which he said he's going to build the U.S. military up to Ronald Reagan levels.