"The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Maintenance Quotes

“Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert. Chapter "Is It a Free Country?", 1935.
“Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.”
“I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.”
“It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.”

Source : Jim Hightower (2004). “Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back”, p.127, Penguin
“Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.”

Source : Geoffrey Wood (2011). “Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero”, WaterBrook
“All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.”

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