"The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Decay Quotes

“Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death â€”Homesick for hills that I had known, For brooks that I had crossed, Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lostâ€¦ .And though they break my heart at last, Yet name no name of ills. Say only, â€œHere is where he passed, Seeking again those hills.”

Source : Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”
“No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.”
“I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.”
“Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.”
“Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.”
“People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.”
“I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.”
“What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth â€” Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?”

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