“Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.” HumansMayCountryPlayArtistHuman BeingsSuicideCommittedLawyerImmortalityBombsImmortalAtomic BombGood LawyerSpacetime Author:e. e. cummings
“When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.” IfsWayLittlesCountryUseProblemCareMovingCultureAsksStrongWonderWorryBloodNew YorkDrinkSuicideSouthPaintSmellHolesCommitEncountersShockHuntingApartmentOld LadySidewalkDubiousHallwaysIndescribableSouthernerCulture ShockStrong Drink Book:Southern ladies and gentlemen Source: Southern ladies and gentlemen
“There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.” YearsCountryNationsHighestYears AgoSuicideRateGlassesTricksJapanThickSuicidalLenses Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.” PeopleLongCountryFactsShowsRealityWantedUsedLyingSufferingLinesPoorLeaderRecordsSawsMissingTomorrowPoliticianAchievementSuicideBoundsCorruptionGoodsPollutionPoor PeopleBoastAdaptedShamelessGreat AchievementLong LinesSleazy Author:Antonin Kratochvil
“We will not commit suicide because of pressure from the international community. A Palestinian state is not possible at the moment. I would rather fight and try to explain the situation in the Middle East to the world than to agree to steps that harm my country to satisfy the international community.” WorldTryingCountryStatesMomentsFightingCommunitySituationStepsMiddlePressureAgreeSuicideInternationalHarmEastCommitMiddle EastPalestinianInternational Community Author:Ayelet Shaked
“There is no country on earth that can touch us in charitable efforts, in disaster relief efforts, in doing everything to help. We do not live under a suicide pact in the name of compassion, because you see what's incorporated in all this is that we're guilty of something. And we're not. We lead the world in goodness.” WorldCountryHelpingEarthNamesEffortCompassionGoodnessSuicideDisasterGuiltyReliefCharitablePactDisaster Relief Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).” HeartCountryNationsCasesResourcesOppositesSuicideRateIllnessLondonMedicalMental IllnessDevelopingOutcomesHeart AttackPsychiatric Author:Richard Bentall
“It is manifestly idiotic to believe that Israel, with five million Jewish citizens and one million Arab citizens, will concede to the return of four million refugees. It will not happen. We can wish it, we can think it's just, that it's moral - it will not happen. No country commits suicide.” ThinkingBelieveCountryHappensWishMoralMillionsFiveFourReturnCitizensSuicideIsraelCommitRefugeeIdiotic Author:Uri Avnery
“The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most of the people in the station who were killed in the bombing. So you take the personal aspect of it and the mystery of who the bomber was and the fact that a small group of people could drive us out of a country that was absolutely key to the United States, and what was behind this... The fact that they've been able to hide the embassy bombers' identities for all these years tells me we're up against a very capable movement.” PeopleCountryConsciousnessMysteryIdentityCapableSuicide Author:Robert Baer
“I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.” DifferentCountryShapesSuicideMental HealthConvincedRelate Author:David Satcher
“But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his character, how am I to persuade you out of a war? It would be suicide for Kildenree to war on Bayern and butchery for Bayern to attack Kildenree. If you don't believe me, then send me back. Or if you don't trust me to leave, I'll return to my little room on the west wall and tend your geese, and you can be sure that on my watch no thieves will touch my flock.” IfsMenBelieveLittlesWarCountryCharacterWould BeRoomsWatchesWallPrideReturnBearsSuicideWestDon't BelieveThievesBelieve In MeTrust MeFlocksDon't TrustGeeseJavelinButchery Book:The Goose Girl Source: The Goose Girl
“This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide. . . . Cuthbert was an optimist at heart, and it seemed to him that, at the rate at which the inhabitants of that interesting country were murdering one another, the supply of Russian novelists must eventually give out.” GivingHeartCountryThreeInterestingStudyHappenedPagesHundredDecidedSuicideMiseryRateCommitNovelistsHopelessGrayOptimistEighty Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has a fiery heart under that ice-queen exterior. She likes the stark simplicity of Japanese art and the daring complexity of Russian literature. She prefers sharp to flowing lines, brooding to pouting, and rock and roll to country and western. Her drink is vodka, her car is German, her analgesic is Advil. The Winter Woman likes her men weak and her coffee strong. She is prone to anemia, hysteria, and suicide.” MenHeartArtCountryLiteratureStrongLinesRocksCarColdDrinkWeakSuicideWesternWinterSimplicityCoffeeLikesSnowIceQueensComplexityDaringRock And RollStarksFieryHysteriaExteriorBroodingVodkaRussian LiteratureBlizzardPoutingIce QueenAnemiaJapanese Art Author:Christopher Moore
“At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact” WantCountryMomentsSurvivalLogicSuicideClimateSeekingCollectivesNegotiationRecipesEmissionsPactMadhouses Author:Mohamed Nasheed
“I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.” WantSaidCountryPlansSuicideBillsCongressCommit Author:Everett Dirksen
“The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.” PeopleDifferentCountryPoliticalCultureFightingNamesEconomicSuicideCeaseUselessEducateQuarrelsEconomic Systems Author:Dalai Lama