Ghost War Quotes

#1. When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#2. A character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it is the basic structure of a good story.

Donald Miller

#3. Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heel of small
war
until the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime

Robert Lowell

#4. When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

Don Nelson

#5. Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small.

Lao-Tzu

#6. She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

Stuart Jaffe

#7. There were so many ghosts in our house - the ghost of my brother, the ghost of my father's war, the ghost of my sister's voices. And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn't even met yet. They werer there. Lying in wait.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

#9. You can't control what happens, but you can control how you choose to respond. You can do everything right and still fail! - Ken Ravizza

Chris Riddoch

#10. Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

Pontius Pilate

#11. The radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

Bliss Perry

#12. This time we'll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it's better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our families and our children, we have to resist to the very end ... ("Vague Expectations")

Xiao Hong

#13. If any man has a ghost
Bourne has a ghost
a tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak
hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone streets still left in downtown New York,
crying out in a shrill soundless giggle:
War is the health of the State.

John Dos Passos

#14. The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving.

Wilford Woodruff

#15. Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.

Siegfried Sassoon

#16. Alas, Experience!

Charlotte Bronte

#17. Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is. It's like you've got your face pressed to it, and all you can see is the small points. The things you want to see.

Scott Snyder

#18. When you figure it out please, be sure to let me know.

Lili Lam

#19. And of course, the deepest irony about the young being cynical is that they are the ones that need to move, and dance, and trust the most.

Caitlin Moran

#20. The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know ... How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

Plato

#21. When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

Richard Francis Burton