2006 Lebanon War Quotes

#1. When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ... we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.

Rick DellaRatta

#2. You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

Ian McKellen

#3. There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

Dick Cavett

#4. Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning.

Noam Chomsky

#5. It is hard to say it is well when you are inside the well but is better to look up in life

Ikechukwu Joseph

#6. Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Hugh Prather

#7. Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.

Martin Van Creveld

#9. The best of who you are is not from who you have in your life, rather who they helped you become because they loved you.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. The pessimist! Whenever something good came along, he knew how to make the worst of it.

Marty Rubin