"The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it."

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Source : "Fictional character: Ronald Speirs". "Band of Brothers", www.imdb.com. 2001.

Ronald Speirs

#Hope Quotes #War Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.”
“I will not join any club who will take me as a member.”
“It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness, against unbelief, against anger, against hatred, against jealousy, against malice, against envy. God has given this power unto all of us, and we can gain still greater power by calling upon Him for that which we lack. If it were not so, how could we be condemned for giving way to wrong influences?”
“Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?”
“How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.”
“We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.”
“My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.”

Source : Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.30, Ballantine Books
“The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.”

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