Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nevins

In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.

Jamie Lee Curtis

We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.

James Whitcomb Riley

He is not dead, he is just - away.

Billy Ray Cyrus

All gave some, Some gave all.

Benjamin Harrison

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

Bob Riley

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Marley

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Dean Koontz

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

Blaise Pascal

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Alan Watts

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

Chogyam Trungpa

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

Chogyam Trungpa

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

Eckhart Tolle

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Eckhart Tolle

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

Deepak Chopra

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

David Brin

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

Ram Dass

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

Marguerite Gardiner

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

Mike Stevens

I'd characterize it this way: It is a monument to poor taste.

Huston Street

That says everything right there. That's how monumental that win was.

Claes Oldenburg

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Robert Lowell

The monument sticks like a fishbone / in the city's throat.

John L. Motley

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

Michael Ramsey

This is a monumental problem. It overshadows all the other problems we have.

Fabien Barthez

He's a monument and he's my friend. For me he's the player of the century.

David Makovsky

This is a consequential election, with monumental events. It's all about one idea: borders.