Mahdi Army Quotes

#1. When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

Ann Radcliffe

#2. Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers.

Richard Louv

#3. Nothing - not even the US Army - more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

Marc Cooper

#4. We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Pierre Corneille

#5. It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.

Charles Glover Barkla

#6. I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.

Fran Lebowitz

#7. To fail to Prepare is to prepare to fail

Benjamin Franklin

#8. It's hard letting go of the past, when there are no firm handholds in the future.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#9. Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

Russell Baker

#10. And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

John Sergeant Wise

#11. I squirmed. "What kind of angel uses words like quick fuck?"
He cocked an eyebrow. "Fallen ones.

Kristina Douglas

#12. Your voice is powerful. Your voice has meaning. If it didn't, people wouldn't work so hard to silence you.
Remember that.

Kameron Hurley

#13. they seemed to be greater strangers than before

Emile Zola

#14. Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.

Mary Parker Follett

#15. There is no worse death than the end of hope.

Pelagius