August 6 1945 Quotes

#1. ...August 6, 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this strange species, which attained the intelligence to discover the effective means to destroy itself, but - so the evidence suggests - not the moral and intellectual capacity to control its worst instincts

Noam Chomsky

#2. It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one ...

Laurence Sterne

#3. From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.

Sophal Ear

#4. I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.

Alannah Myles

#5. In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

J.G. Ballard

#6. Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. But in August 1945, Americans

Fannie Flagg

#8. Have they defected? They have not gone yet.

Bamanga Tukur

#9. Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. The rational scrutiny of religious faith involves asking believers only two questions: How do you know that? What makes you so sure that the claims of your faith are right and the claims of other faiths are wrong?

Jerry A. Coyne

#11. When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.

Edward Kitsis

#12. When you are in a car, bitch or no bitch, you can do anything you desire as long as you remain on your side.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

Bob Feller

#14. Repetition rings a bell!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

Frank Stella

#16. In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.

George Vecsey

#17. You never answer a question nobody does.

Gertrude Stein

#18. I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#19. You don't inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.

Robyn Benincasa