"Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers."

-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes #Battle Quotes

“If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.”

Source : Donna Jo Napoli (2012). “Bound”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.”
“I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.”
“Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.”

Source : David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.
“Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.”
“In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.”
“It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.”
“I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.”

Source : Latrell Sprewell during Press Conference, www.insidehoops.com. October 11, 2003.

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