8 Quotes by William Stevenson

The most tragic thing about he war was not that it made so many dead men, but that it destroyed the tragedy of death," wrote the American poet John Peale Bishop. "Not only did the young suffer in the war, but so did every abstraction that would have sustained and given dignity to their suffering.

I think that they will be used and they should be used for particularly high-risk patients. It's hard to decide who is a particularly high-risk patient right now.

This complaint is brought by Don Ide, someone who was never available to give care, comfort or necessary help to Henry and Marion Ide during approximately 10 years of failing health, ... He would visit one to two times a year and now he comes looking for money. What a surprise.

The injuries were so extensive we all felt that it wasn't an accident. We had to abide by the law, and the law spelled it out. It wasn't just wrestling.

The court just sentenced her to 30 days, suspended for I believe 24 months. She got a $100 fine, and she has to do community service.

There’s a considerable difference between being high-minded and soft-headed.” There.

The greater danger to individual freedom comes from totalitarian regimes that regard any dissenting view as a threat to be destroyed – no matter if the threat comes from a lonely writer protesting against injustice or from another nation.

We’d both learned to distrust an elite class that claimed the privilege of leadership in good times and then, having led the people into calamity, let them fight their own way out.