Senselessness Of War Quotes

#1. Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

Alan Armstrong

#2. What's important here is that the Republicans agree with [Donald Trump].

Hillary Clinton

#3. May my practice be dedicated to your well-being.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Stomach-sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. This

Jeffrey Eugenides

#6. To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

Sten Nadolny

#7. I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know ... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

B.F. Skinner

#8. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

Alberto Manguel

#9. her bedside. She shut her eyes tightly against the sight

Glynnis Campbell

#10. Winning is an effect of trying. You have to want it badly enough to go through pain, discipline, and failure to find it. To confront it. To claim it. But most of all, you have to fight for it. Everything else - anything else - is absolute surrender

Chelsea Fine

#11. I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

Richard Eberhart

#12. We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

Steven Weber

#13. If you want to feel your existence use your mind.

Maliheh Sadat Razavi

#14. And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Chauncey Wright

#15. Well, while I'm here I'll do the work - and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

Allen Ginsberg

#16. The American people can always be trusted with the information.

Scott Pelley

#17. A penny for your thoughts, silent one. Perhaps, today you'll speak.

Pepper Winters

#18. When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals

John Green