#red

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. ↗

— John Lennon

#either #fighting #get #peace #tired

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. ↗

— John Lennon

#conferred #cross #distinction #escape #few

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#between #forth #get #guitar #help

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#always #because #been #considered #going

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions. ↗

— Noah Webster

#considered #government #great #great source #guided

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#change #clear #deal #great #great deal

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#admired #arnold #bennett #deathbed #father

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#crisis #deal #fashion #grasping #great

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #feel #flat #incredulity #lives