"We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it."

-- Edward Hoagland

#Long Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Violence Quotes

“Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.”
“I see the underlying economy as being very healthy,”
“What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.”
“No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.”
“I am completely honest and truthful when I say I donâ€™t want a gold for myself. I want a gold for the team. You go up there and do it as a collective group and itâ€™s so much more satisfying, I mean you look around and you see the faces and just wow, this was a team effort and we did this together. Itâ€™s incredible and thatâ€™s my dream. I wanna win a gold medal and see the flag go up, hear the national anthem and just know that I did it with my brothers standing next to me.”
“There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'”
“All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.”
“And the look on her face as she opened the door Was like an old joke told by a friend. It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile And I watched the corners start to bend.”

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