Reflection Quotes

"I'd say that the only trauma I've suffered was existential."

"After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is."

"I fed my ego, but not my soul."

"I'm a thinker."

"My twenties were amazing. My thirties were all highs and lows."

"My memories of events and games are fragmented."

"What went wrong was that I did too many multi-starrers. Those films did well, just not for me."

"Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection upon the past year and those people who have helped to shape our lives."

Gail Lynne Goodwin

"Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature."

"Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go."

Henry Austin Dobson

"Travel is the saddest of pleasures."

Paul Morand

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

George Santayana

"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

W. B. Yeats

"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it."

Erasmus

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."

Omar Bradley

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."

Barbara Tuchman

"War is a force that gives us meaning."

Chris Hedges

"I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!"

Anne Frank

"War creates no absolutely new situation; it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it."

"War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living."

J. Krishnamurti

"When a vote of war is taken, no one reckons on his own death."

Euripides

"War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war."

Leo Tolstoy

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell