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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout


Alice Walker

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ALICE WALKER She can only shout, and she can only die,
MARCIA TANNER Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
JOAN D. VINGE The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —ALICE WALKER
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PIERCE BROWN Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I am a pacifist, but be aware that I also carry a gun.
M.F. MOONZAJER The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily go...
AARON KOBLIN There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
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GARY NELSON We always think we can make room for one more, and we do.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
BLAISE PASCAL All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
BLAISE PASCAL All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
BLAISE PASCAL Make money quietly.
MUHAMMED HAIDER It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is...
PADDY CHAYEFSKY Men are always for hire who like dirty work.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if th...
SAMUEL SMILES Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they...
SAMUEL SMILES It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
WOODY ALLEN It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
STEPHEN WRIGHT I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE MCGOVERN I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE S. MCGOVERN Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die ...
JOHN OWEN The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room
BLAISE PASCAL President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution in...
JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ I feel like I'm always on the right side of wrong and trying to shout out for the underdog.
KATHERINE RYAN Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
DION BOUCICAULT 'Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I've a...
PIERCE BROWN It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.
GEORGE CARLIN Men die. It's practically what they're for.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Ian " she said quietly "I'd rather die than go back to you."
"Be careful what you ask for you ...
AMANDA STEPHAN There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
NAPOLEON HILL Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themse...
ANI DIFRANCO Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
JODI PICOULT [The administration] mourns the loss of each and every one of our men and women in uniform who have ...
FREDERICK JONES Nothing can make the world peaceful, except war. I doubt if war is peaceful though.
EPHDAN [Walker cut one player who had been on the team for two years.] It was heartbreaking, ... But I opte...
CRAIG WALKER I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE MCGOVERN we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE Yet, when the men get infected, which so happens in the cities, and they go back to the rural areas ...
STEPHEN LEWIS Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact
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ABHIJIT NASKAR It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. HOWE That you did something bad is not enough to make you a bad person
SOTONYE ANGA The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
GEORGE S. PATTON The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
GENERAL PATTERSON (WWII) I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who a...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who hav...
CAROLYN GOLD HEILBRUN Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who hav...
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JULIUS CAESAR It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pai...
JULIUS CAESAR Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way. - Clement Walker,
CLEMENT WALKER I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scatt...
WILKIE COLLINS We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on w...
JOHN OSBORNE Jesus was a pacifist.
CHRIS HEDGES Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
ANNE BISHOP It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.
ILONA ANDREWS One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy...
PAUL WASHER Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE There's always room for improvement, you know-it's the biggest room in the house.
LOUISE HEATH LEBER Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
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ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c...
ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER