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The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it.
~ Charles Manson
We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. Yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call "war.
~ Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes.
~ Semezdin Mehmedinovi?
I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.
~ Glen Cook
I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles
~ Sara Niles
Enemies, ' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.
~ Terry Goodkind, Debt of Bones
For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.
~ David Jones, In Parenthesis
Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring
~ Jodi Picoult
The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.
~ Gail Carriger, Soulless
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
~ Jane Austen
It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?""It's meant to be lavender.""No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.
~ David Nicholls, One Day
The cleanest civilization I've ever seen…and the number one thing you pack for a wedding is a jar of dirt?
~ M.A. George, Relativity
If my mom sees you here, she'll ---" "Paper the walls with my innards while the innocents watch?
~ Jamie Farrell, Sugared
What in the world is this abomination?"Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, "Adrian, is this some kind of joke?
~ Richelle Mead, Silver Shadows
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.
~ Richard Dawkins
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
~ Archilochus
There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
~ Al-Shafi'i
Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt
~ Al-Nawawi
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
~ Arthur Cohn
Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them
~ Paulo Coelho
Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.
~ T. D. Jakes
The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.
~ Thubten Yeshe