Jerry Claiborne Quotes

#1. Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?

Elie Wiesel

#2. If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.

Pete Hamill

#3. Lovely," Nellie whispered. "A double-crosser wouldn't spend all this time gardening and planting flowers, would they?"
...
Sinead Starling opened the door.
"Ah," Nellie said. "I guess I was wrong.

Jude Watson

#4. Reason in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. There's no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism.

Anonymous

#6. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

Mike Nichols

#7. Ripping the Band-Aid off quickly" is

Patrick Lencioni

#8. When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn't
know which way any of them will go.

Galway Kinnell

#9. Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.

David Livingstone

#10. The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

Arthur Guiterman

#11. I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.

Thomas Chalmers

#12. Russian novels don't teach you how to become successful.

Svetlana Alexievich