A Word Please

Some of my favorite Ernest Hemingway quotes:

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
I can relate! Sometimes I feel like I have a love affair with words.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
This is how I feel about using swears. They no longer have the power they used to because the language is so common. I hear 5-year-olds swearing in the grocery store!

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Such great advice!

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
This one makes me laugh. Such truth there!

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Powerful words for the peace-loving hippie in me.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
And sometimes I hemorrhage!

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

~ Albert Einstein

I am sick and tired of war. It’s glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It’s nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it’s anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we’ll all be hooked on phonics.

~ Leighann Lord

Such a great line:
There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
A Study In Scarlet
Sherlock Homes
by Arthur Conan Doyle

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A particularly thought-provoking quote:

If one person dies, it’s a tragedy. If a million people die, it’s a statistic.
~ Joseph Stalin