#others

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#aim #bringing #century #flickering #highest

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#broaden #brothers #did #johnson #leave

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#attracted #became #because #been #brothers

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#became #because #brothers #down #family

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#becomes #detailed #elephant #films #interpretive

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#arms #band #brothers #dire #git

This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#book #daunting #help #how #into

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#charity #citizens #couple #dollars #gift

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#completely #discarded #else #fundamental #life

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#fathers #killing #left #means #mothers