Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

Drew Gilpin Faust

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WarEscapeEverydayGrayThings

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

Joe Morton

BasketballIcePlayBecauseHow

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

Jim Carrey

FamilyEatingHellPlaceListen

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

Jessie Pavelka

LifeWorkCharacterJourneyLight

Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation.

Matthew Desmond

BuildingMoreLandlordBetweenEight

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

Amber Riley

WomanI AmBlackYouPersonKnow

I don't envy guards. They're quick little monkeys, those guys.

Steven Adams

EnvyQuickLittleMonkeysGuards

I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy.

Ry Cooder

MusicThoughtAlwaysEastKinda

What I've been telling people is that the doctors are gaining on cancer very rapidly. It's almost become a chronic disease, like diabetes - something you can treat. It doesn't go away, and you're not well in the sense of being over it, but you go on and live your life.

Molly Ivins

LifeLivePeopleTreatYouBecome

Whether weapons exist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein or post-Saddam Hussein, it is a serious enough issue that require that we continue to go and make sure that Iraq does not have weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

EnoughGoSeriousExistSureMake

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Louis Leakey

ArtEvidenceShowTragicPrehistoric

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

Dorothy Allison

TruthBeautifulBetterYouYoung

I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

Boris Trajkovski

DailyVisionPeaceI AmPeople

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