#ives

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#changes #draft #families #fought #group

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#dust #fame #great #into #life

The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth? ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#craft #describing #had #hundred #incident

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#defense #essential #gave #honor #individuals

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#class #european #helpless #imposed #jews

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arab #department #distracted #fixed #followers

To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough. ↗

— Junior Seau

#based #chase #finally #gave #get

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#care #dollars #economic #economic issues #education

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. ↗

— David Sedaris

#books #i #like #lives #nonfiction

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. ↗

— Lisa See

#back up #come #each #friendship #last