Bob Riley The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live. – Bob Riley Expense Quotes Freedom Quotes Hoped Quotes Hour Quotes Hours Quotes Lifetimes Quotes Live Quotes Military Quotes Serve Quotes Women Quotes Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.
Susan Orlean Here’s a habit I never thought I’d develop: I gravitate to anything online that’s marked ‘most popular’ or ‘most e-mailed.’ And I hate myself a little bit every time I do. – Susan Orlean
Meat Loaf I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That’s my role in life, to be an outcast. – Meat Loaf
Eyvind Johnson A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. – Eyvind Johnson
LoveMomWashington Irving A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all. – Washington Irving
Stewart Lee I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry publisher, and to apply to stand-up the same sort of weight of annotation that you would to a classic work of literature, an epic poem. I thought that would be funny. – Stewart Lee
Aaron DessnerFriendship Big Red Machine is really a community effort: I guess it involves almost 30 musicians. It does come out of our friendship, but it’s really something that is deeply collaborative. – Aaron Dessner
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