Quotes for All
War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste… The only redeeming factors were my comrades’ incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps training taught us to kill efficiently and to try to survive. But it also taught us loyalty to each other – and love. That espirit de corps sustained us. Eugene … Read more
All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn’t anticipate but which can make the difference between meeting a deadline and going into research mode for a year, etc. Erik Naggum
At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn’t get jammed, as it does in the ribs. Erich Maria Remarque
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it’s all perfectly normal in the morning. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy. Elizabeth Gilbert
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. E. O. Wilson
In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned. Friedrich August von Hayek
So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father’s goodness. Franz Liszt
We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound. Francesca Marciano