"American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution."

-- Evan Thomas

#War Quotes #Boys Quotes #Dying Quotes

“So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?”
“When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.”
“The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.”
“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.”
“The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.”
“We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.”
“Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.”
“I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.”

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