"It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself."

-- Henry L. Stimson

#Country Quotes #Retirement Quotes #Army Quotes

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
“There's no such thing as an anti-war film,”
“Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.”

Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
“I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.”
“I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.”
“He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.”

Source : William Cooke, Samuel Foote (1806). “Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: With a Collection of His Genuine Bon-mots, Anecdotes, Opinions, &c., Mostly Original, and Three of His Dramatic Pieces Not Published in His Works : in Two Volumes”, p.179
“I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.”
“the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”

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