"We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage."

-- J. E. B. Stuart

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Army Quotes

“Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.”

Source : "Talulla Rising". Book by Glen Duncan, March 21, 2012.
“I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.”

Source : Nancy E. Turner (2010). “Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906”, p.265, Macmillan
“I excel at pulling strings!â€ said Arachne. â€œIâ€™m a spider!”
“There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.303, Vintage
“Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.”
“A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)”

Source : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
“We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.”
“I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.”

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