"To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary."

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Source : "There Will Be War". Book by Jerry Pournelle, 1983.

Jerry Pournelle

#Kings Quotes #Home Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Bullets ain't racial, kid...they only hate you.”
“When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.”
“There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.”

Source : Joy Williams (2010). “Taking Care”, p.210, Vintage
“But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
“My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.”

Source : "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.”
“American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.”

Source : "Is Cloning Monkeys Morally Wrong?". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2007.
“A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.”

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