Afghan Girl Quotes

#1. remember how they tracked down that green-eyed Afghan girl? And she's now a leather-faced crone? Because her life went from misery and shit to more monotonous and meaningless misery and shit, while her famous photo went 'round and 'round the world making that McCurry guy famous? I say we do it.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#2. War is sanctioned murder, no matter what side you're on.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

George Kennedy

#4. What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters - specifically, voters with irrational beliefs about the effects of various policies? It is a recipe for mendacity.

Bryan Caplan

#5. Lie really could be construed as the art of illusion by some people.

Heather Graham

#6. It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

George R R Martin

#7. We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.

R.A. Torrey

#8. It always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

Kathryn Stockett

#9. The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more ... this foresight, well or ill used, is the source of all the wisdom or the wretchedness of mankind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#10. On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Maya Angelou

#11. I have wasted a lot of time living.

Michael Oakeshott

#12. Across the hall, Paul was either fucking the girl or murdering her, I couldn't tell which. I smelled mothballs. The afghan was going to have to go.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#13. Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#14. Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Sarah Bernhardt

#15. I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

Lars Von Trier