No wars are unintended or 'accidental'. What is often unintended is the length and bloodiness of the war.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.[https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/g38335193/strong-women-quotes/]

[http://www.humanistictexts.org/al_ma'arri.htm Al-Maʿarri's poems (in English)]

Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb.

When the Messenger of God conquered Hunayn, he desired to march to al-Ta if. He sent al-Tufayl b. “Amr to Dhū l-Kaffayn the idol of Amr b. Humama to destroy it. He commanded him to ask his people to help him and join him in al-Ta’if.

Đông tay vỗ nên kêu

Life seemed unbearable at times but I adapted the attitude of a 'female warrior'.

I'm not a fool. I'm not capable of being fooled! Not even by a woman.

I don't read poetry for pleasure. I read to be terrified in a way. And people who terrify me from their size and the grandeur of their imagination now are people like Pasternak and Neruda, a lot of Latin-American poets, Lowell - very few English poets - Ted Hughes a little...very few English poets now in fact (1968)

I will not allow my daughter’s blood to be trampled on.

[http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/fm/fm.htm Biographical Information about Sengcan as well as the Hsin Hsin Ming itself]

MakhayaMaseko’s quest is to find inner peace of mind by a constructive engagement with the social world and in the world of GolemaMmidi, these desires are offered fulfilment

All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

It was quite a tough school. Put it this way, we had our own coroner.