#rote

It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#attacked #been #coincidence #country #factors

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#answer #course #does #faith #god

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#changing #changing the world #into #life #must

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#honest #man #separated #who #writing

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. ↗

— Kit Williams

#fairy #fairy tale #got #had #how

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#go #i #just #organic #pretty

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#course #different #different place #different things #essence

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else. ↗

— August Wilson

#document #else #historical #i #me

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#commercial #crashing #ever #here #history