Five Quotes

• Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Determination, Years, Administration

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• I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

  Micky Dolenz

  Guitar, Piano, Parent

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• Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Hurt

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.133, Melville House

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• I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Mountain, Doe

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.141, Infobase Publishing

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• It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Intelligent, Bird, Slaughterhouse Five

  Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Spark Notes

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• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Healing, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Character, People

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nice, Grateful, Slaughterhouse Five

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Slaughterhouse Five, Causes

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Bird, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5

  Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Spark Notes

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• One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Character, People

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Slaughterhouse Five, Veteran

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.156, Infobase Publishing

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• There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Intelligent, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.3, Infobase Publishing

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• We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

  John Gardner

  Reading, Writing, Printed Word

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• Its five o'clock some where

  Kenny Chesney

  Clock

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• Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

  Douglas Coupland

  Years, Pie, Laughing

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to find out what happened in the past and what will happen next. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, it is a powerful new work of fiction by an internationally acclaimed writer at the height of his powers.

  Will Schwalbe

  Powerful, Regret, Past

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• Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Yesterday, Choices, Victory

  Lysa TerKeurst (2010). “Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food”, p.192, Thomas Nelson

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• Well, the world has changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look: Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?

  Alan Grant

  Running, Men, Years

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• I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

  Joan Severance

  Walking Away, Guy, Males

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They really can’t afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can’t afford to do research for five customers who won’t generate a lot of commissions.

  Peter Cundill

  House, Research, Investment

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• Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the halls of the facility where he lived, introducing himself and shaking people's hands as he had done at Rotary meetings. He complimented the nurses, ‘You have a lovely figure.’ He could also eat an entire 2 lb. box of See's Candies in an afternoon, which requires considerable effort with stage five Parkinson's disease.

  Jennifer L. Knox

  Father, Men, Hands

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• Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

  Megan Boyle

  Years, Trying, Like You

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• Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!

  Darren Clarke

  Matter, Forests, Hard

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• Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

  Thylias Moss

  Alternatives, Emotion, Break

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