"When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks."

-- H. H. Asquith

#War Quotes #Army Quotes #Wire Quotes

“Mars is not an aesthetic God.”

Source : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”
“But I think that I'm just a normal girl, you know.”

Source : "Donna Summer: 'Then I sought help'". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2003.
“Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.”
“Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery”
“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”

Source : John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348
“Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

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