"In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading."

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J. F. C. Fuller

#War Quotes #Army Quotes #Men Quotes

“LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.”
“I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.”
“Well, you know what? If that guy can do it, I can be myself too, and if that rapper can be himself and be free and be happy and still hold masculinity and love people and love flowers and just be happy being alive, well then, I can do that too.”

Source : "Rapper Lil B on 'I'm Gay': 'We're all one people'". Interview with Gavin Godfrey, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2011.
“A wound thatâ€™d make an ordinary man unconscious, I wonâ€™t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I wonâ€™t lose to it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I canâ€™t allow myself to be ordinary!”
“Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.52, Penguin
“If I must fall, may it be from a high place.”
“When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.”
“Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.”

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