Quotes About Medals And Ribbons

#1. The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.

Saul Bellow

#2. Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.

John Ruskin

#3. His face was badly bruised and swollen and altogether painful looking, but it really brought out his eyes.

Nicole Castle

#4. At the end of the life you have to live your day alone and vice-versa.

Vikrmn

#5. In the old days, the general's ribbons / & medals rainbowed across his chest, / & if he were interrogating himself, / by now, blood would be on the walls.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#6. Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

Christina Rossetti

#8. Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

Pliny The Elder

#9. The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those works.

Arne Glimcher

#10. I lie back down and close my eyes and imagine his arms are still around me, and that's how I fall asleep.

Jenny Han

#11. We are built with a passion in our heart for the things we are meant to do.

Lights Poxlietner

#12. Remove all the junk from one's house. Then one doesn't have to deal with the temptation. If you get hungry enough, you will eat that apple.

Michael Greger

#13. Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. He tossed her over his shoulder and stalked back to the bedroom.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"I've had enough babysitting duty. It's time for some grownup action.

Terry Spear

#15. All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

Hugh Casson