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John Keegan Quotes

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: english
Birth: May 15, 1934 - August 2, 2012

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Mountain Think Somewhere Valley Shot

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Better You Principles Leave Off

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

Today Networking Someone You Never

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

Stanley Schmidt

Good Better Possible Anything Nasty

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Wisdom Yourself Ideas You Will Own

Bike lanes are the coolest. My favorite past time is flipping off cars from my bicycle. Just kidding - I'm more of a silent resentment kind of girl.

Girl Time Bike Past Bicycle Silent

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.

Mother Black And White Beautiful Eyes

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.

God Heart Soul World Action Enjoy

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

Work Love Women Time Job School

The feud with Jerry Lawler was one of the best feuds I ever had. He was the perfect heel and kept his heat. People hated him.

Best People Perfect Heat Him Hated

I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.

Best Memory Free Feet Trying Say

I must say here in France I had more serenity or security as I was working because I knew I was making the film the way I wished and that the film would be seen, ultimately, which is not always the case in Iran. In Iran, you always work having in mind this worry of will I be able to carry on my project as I wish and will the audience see the film.

Work Mind Serenity Wish Worry You

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Work Good Me You Bad Everything

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