"Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment."

-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Military Quotes #Gun Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.”
“There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.”
“Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more. The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn't his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?”
“The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.”
“All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.”
“When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.”
“I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.”
“Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.”

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