As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
Lynsey Addario
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JAMES CLAVELL I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta... SHELLIE PALMER I've gotten to know a lot of great people here in all the different sports. It's fun. It'... AARON RODGERS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisio... PETER LANDESMAN I go back to World War I. I even remember armistice day in school. During the war, my mother was bus... HOLLY DIANICH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middl... ANTHONY SHADID He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not m... TRACY POLLAN Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I'm a good little middle-class boy. I live in Gloucestershire or Kensington. I don't exist i... NICK LOVE In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, peo... BUNKER ROY I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, an... NINA DOBREV I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. I've got my foot in 'Saturday Night Live,' and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I... PAULA PELL Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. JEAN GIRAUDOUX life is full of fantasies. Life is full of realities. Fantasies bring fantasies and realities bring ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source... JOSH GAD Melanie is the gentlest of dreams and a part of my dreaming. And if the war had not come I would hav... MARGARET MITCHELL The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answe... DANA PERINO This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis... ALBERT CAMUS Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST It's always the case that the minority has to navigate two different worlds. Women have to know ... STERLING K. BROWN Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for no... CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself. KAREN MARIE MONING Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, p... JANE BENNETT Greet Sunrise.Salute Sunset.Embrace life your own unique journey has begun HANS FLEISCHER i don't trust or have a faith in anything but i just know very well that my past experience so i do ... HEM KUMAR PUN Live your life with love in your heart, and no matter what people say or may think help others and l... MIKE BOLTON Sadly, we give little thought or consideration to the messages that we entertain. ASA DON BROWN Responsibility is the admission that you have a role in this game called life. ASA DON BROWN Your spiritual mind is greater than your physical mind. ASA DON BROWN I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow... ASA DON BROWN Our human quest is to survive; our spiritual quest is to unite. ASA DON BROWN Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices. ASA DON BROWN But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?" "I'm not human," he sai... 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Look at something solid in the known world: an ... NATALIE GOLDBERG We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL
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