Quotes of Smedley Butler

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War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

- Smedley Butler

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“ Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I want to stand in front Allah proud of how well I treated back in dunya. ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ All my problems bow before my stubbornness. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ When love is real. You both will do whatever you can to build and construct a solid relationship. It will be hard work but it's possible, We all come with pros and cons. If it's real, it will never be over. ”

- Katherine Vargas

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter