"He lifed his head and looked down at her seriously. "Could you," he began, then he had to clear his throat. "Could you learn to be fond of me?" he asked. "With enough time?" She looked at him in surprise. It was the first time in all their acquaintance that she'd heard him sound the least bit hesitant. "I don't need to learn anything," she said, before she thought better of it."

-- Lynn Kurland

#Firsts Quotes #Sound Quotes #Enough Time Quotes

“A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.”
“When you're looking to meet someone...you're looking to settle...”
“The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.”

Source : "Men Against Fire : The Problem of Battle Command in Future War". Book by S.L.A. Marshall, p. 160, 1954.
“I have been baptized twice- once in water...once in flame.”
“I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.”
“Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.”
“It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.”
“Preki quite literally only has the one foot”

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