Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus
Recitation: by Male by Female
Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.
Jim Garrison
FaithIgnoranceNeverCompleteRead
President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.
Robert McFarlane
LifeAmericanLossNavyMarines
On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences - or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.
Michael Dirda
HomeBeautifulGreatTimeDayGray
From the moment my dad died, from the moment I found out there was the possibility of his dying, there were many surprises - years after, minutes after. The moments I was okay were as surprising as the ones that I wasn't. Making it through the eulogy without losing it. And then the guilt I felt about it. Surprise!
Alysia Reiner
MomentLosingSurpriseGuiltMoments
What I find relatively funny is that I'm not a model. I'm five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or desire to be a model, I don't live for fashion. But when an opportunity comes your way very early in your career, like Burberry, you do it.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
FunnyLiveOpportunityFashionYou
I don't compete with actresses; I only compete with heroes.
Sonam Kapoor
HeroesCompeteOnly
One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.
Steven Millhauser
MomentRiverMeStoryEndFirst
My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave.
Tom Colicchio
GoodSchoolBetterYouDrunkBar
I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.
Martin Van Creveld
PlaceWantKindMoreNumberAny
I regret not learning to drive when I was younger.
Michelle Dockery
LearningDriveRegretYounger
I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate?
Lizzy Caplan
PeopleMeThinkRestaurantYouWant
The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.
Jose Mourinho
ControlGameMoreOnlyWouldLike
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