#war

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#anything #arrive #certain #clear #death

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beware #blow #does #forgive #forgives

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#essence #fellow #fellow creatures #hate #indifferent

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#example #hold #lesson #must #object

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#been #every #forward #i #life

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#arduous #better #infinitely #more #only

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#british #except #office #soldier #stand

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#fear #going #govern #life #live

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#deal #did #ernest #ernest hemingway #figure

But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#difficult #i #keep #longer #more