"I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, but for the kid who'd come to Iraq. He was gone. I did all this in the dark, away from the platoon, because combat command is the loneliest job in the world."

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Source : Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.243, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nathaniel Fick

#Hurt Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Kids Quotes

“I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.”
“If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet
“You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being a Queen will not overtax you as you will never be called upon to use your mind on any major matter. You will use the National Mind, their mind. It's very restful ...”
“You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there”
“....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”
“It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.”
“If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.”

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