"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Lord Mountbatten

#Military Quotes #Trophies Quotes #Usefulness Quotes

“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)”
“Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.166
“Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
“We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.”

Source : Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl”, p.163, Hachette UK
“Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop, I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop, Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top, Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closin the shop”

Source : "Song: 'We Can Get Down'". 1993.
“Under the sacred and compelling trust we have as members of the Church of Jesus Christ, ours is a work of redemption, of lifting and saving those who need help. Ours is a task of raising the sights of those of our people who fail to realize the great potential that lies within them.”
“With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.”
“I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport.”

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