Frank Nugent famous quotes

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  • The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  • Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.

  • But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

  • Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. ... His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.

  • Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

  • Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

  • If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!

  • I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

  • I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

  • To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.