#war

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. ↗

— Jay Leno

#given #iraqi #name #operation #pentagon

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 wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #had #i #messed #messed up

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #had #i #messed #messed up

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dead #i #me #off #pleased

When there's a war, people get married. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#get married #married #people #war

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#heaven #most #perfect #prayer #single

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#constitutes #earnest #effort #forward #man

Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed. ↗

— David Letterman

#bed #daylight #fall #forget #forward

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan? ↗

— David Letterman

#does #early #feel #just #like