Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
And they do calm down.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“you are right where you should be / now act like it”
Michelle Tea (1971) American writer
Source: The Beautiful: Collected Poems
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In full: Tony Blair's speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5382590.stm, BBC News online <br class="br">Attacking David Cameron, during his Labour Party Conference speech on 26 September 2006. <br class="br">2000s
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
J.E. Gordon (1913–1998) Materials scientist
Source: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents
Context: In the course of a long professional life spent, or misspent, in the study of the strengths of materials and structures, I have had cause to examine a lot of accidents, many of them fatal. I have been forced to the conclusion that very few accidents just "happen" in a morally neutral way. Nine out of ten accidents are caused, not by more or less abstruse technical effects, but by old-fashioned human sin — often verging on plain wickedness. Of course I do not mean the more gilded and juicy sins like deliberate murder, large-scale fraud, or Sex. It is squalid sins like carelessness, idleness, won't-learn-and-don't-need-to-ask, you-can't-tell-me-anything-about-my-job, pride, jealousy and greed that kill people.
Imru' al-Qais (501–544) Arabic Poet
The Sacred books and Early literature of the East, Vol. 5, p. 22 https://archive.org/details/sacredbooksearly05hornuoft/page/18/mode/2up <br class="br">The Poem of Imru' al-Qais, Couplets
“If you were to kill me now right here,
I would still look you in the eye”
Suzanne Vega (1959) American singer
In the Eye
Suzanne Vega (1985)
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician
Conversation with Jean Martet (18 December 1927), Ch. 11, p. 167.
Clemenceau, The Events of His Life (1930)
Context: A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.