"There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with."

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Source : "The Real Heroes Are Dead" by James B. Stewart, www.newyorker.com. February 11, 2002.

Dan Hill

#Men Quotes #Example Quotes #World Quotes

“The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.”

Source : "Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why are William and Kate paying tribute to him on their visit to India?" by Kirstie McCrum, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2016.
“Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.”

Source : "Letter To President Wilson" by Ben Salmon, June 5, 1917.
“She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books
“For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.”
“They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times.”
“I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.”

Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”
“I have a really, really great girl in my life right now.”
“When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).”

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