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The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.


Gideon Raff

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And in a nasty war, where's the best place to be? Apart from on the moon, o' course? No one?"
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J.A. REDMERSKI After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years...
MARTHA GELLHORN There's been quite a lot of debate about the application of the Geneva Convention. ... Whether they ...
KOFI ANNAN We are the choices we make.
PATRICK NESS The fire of hope never dies.
BEN OAK And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing bac...
PATRICK NESS The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
WILMA MANKILLER Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders w...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed m...
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GIDEON RAFF When I tell my American counterparts that my budget was $200,000 per episode, they burst out laughin...
GIDEON RAFF In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a ...
GIDEON RAFF Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are ...
JOHN CONNOLLY No. We never discussed perjury.
MONICA LEWINSKY I’m so hard right now my dick can cut diamonds.
- Andrew Parrish
J.A. REDMERSKI When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU I'm sure we'll never understand it for the rest of our lives. I'm sure, even after the trial, it wil...
ANGELA BROADHEAD One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the...
BILL NIGHY By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered t...
STEPHEN HUNTER The Vietnam War was definitive in the lives of those who served. But those who made it home, never f...
JOSEPH M. PUGLIA There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, the...
MARQUIS DE SADE Woman and Book would never be returned in the same quality when they are gone to someone else's hand...
NISHI DE SILVA We want to know what is going on, what is being discussed. After all, what is decided impacts our li...
ERNIE CONWELL We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA After 38 years of ugly occupation, they are leaving and they will never come back,
AHMED QUREIA We never discussed KU and K-State.
LAWRENCE MICKEY The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely ...
PETER ACKROYD I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people...
DAVID SEDARIS All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. Th...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON Any NATO personnel that were shot down and captured by Yugoslav forces would be entitled to all the ...
KEN BACON The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II A significant number of those who participated in the war effort were young people. People who are r...
J. CHRIS TOE Curtains are our prisoners; they feel free only when they escape out of the windows and fly in the a...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms t...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problems of their lives never get presented in terms ...
ROBERT CHAPMAN When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
PAT CONROY People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be t...
ROY BLUNT Wars take many lives away. Humans never forget the grief, but they also never stop the fighting. Str...
DUO MAXWELL In view of history, I sincerely wish the ravages of war will never be repeated. With all the Japanes...
AKIHITO The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move fin...
HENRY BESTON The things that they do I never would have dreamt of - it's quite exciting to see that. It's almost ...
ANNE SALMOND I've never discussed Whitewater ... and I'm not discussing Whitewater now.
BOB DOLE I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it...
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of...
KURT VONNEGUT If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war w...
JOHN BRIGHT If this phrase of the balance of power is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will...
JOHN BRIGHT If this phrase of the ''balance of power'' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war ...
JOHN BRIGHT I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless mino...
WALT WHITMAN In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. With all the Ja...
EMPEROR AKIHITO I’ll never get tired of hearing your sweet words, but I will get tired of not
DIEGO VELASQUEZ In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are be...
JOHN YOO The heart never lies
CHRISTINE LOVE NEVER DIES Almost any veterans of foreign wars can tell you war stories, especially after a couple of beers.
GENE WESTFALL When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately insti...
GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of people...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
ZEBULON PIKE ...men are poor soldiers in love's war. And it is a war-one that never ends.
ANDREA CREMER If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext fo...
JOHN BRIGHT You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to i...
LOUISE ERDRICH And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he w...
BIBLE I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to G...
REINHARD SELTEN Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
NADEZHDA TOLOKONNIKOVA The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many...
VERA NAZARIAN everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA. everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA Great lives never go out; they go on.
BENJAMIN HARRISON We moved to battle positions. We never returned to barracks.
LELAND CHANDLER Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNER People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
OTTO VON BISMARCK People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
OTTO VON BISMARCK People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
OTTO VON BISMARCK People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
OTTO VON BISMARK war...war never changes
RON PERLMAN The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any oth...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Love is almost never simple.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - ...
REM KOOLHAAS Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationali...
SALVADOR DALí Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationali...
SALVADOR DALI Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationali...
SALVADOR DALí War is very cruel, a predatory jungle, and is never the true path of life.
FENG NONG No, war is never about killing the enemy. War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some ...
DAVID WONG We all are prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectati...
R.A. SALVATORE I TOOK MY LIFE AS A CHALLENGE, SO I WAS ABLE TO WRITE THIS, BUT YOU TOOK YOUR LIFE AS A GAME,SO YOU ...
MARKHANDEYA My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three mi...
CLAIRE MESSUD Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into some...
LEMONY SNICKET I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners c...
OSCAR WILDE Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at time...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't the proximal cause for the U.S. entering WWI. It was almost ...
ERIK LARSON Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest...
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