"Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct."

-- John J. Pershing

#Brother Quotes #Marine Quotes #Army Quotes

“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”
“The worship of safety emasculates greatness.”
“You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.' It's a gift.”

Source : Christina Dodd (2008). “Into the Shadow: Darkness Chosen”, p.12, Penguin
“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.”
“Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.”
“If you have a problem, if you have a fire in your house, would you want - don't want your neighbors to give you a hand? That's what we have.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theology has become an embarrassing encumbrance or a matter of which they have little knowledge; and many in the Church have now turned in upon themselves and substituted for the knowledge of God a search for the knowledge of self.”
“People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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