"The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy."

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Source : "Memories". Book by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher, p. 18, 1919.

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

#War Quotes #Army Quotes #Navy Quotes

“None of us can help the things life has done to us. Theyâ€™re done before you realize it, and once theyâ€™re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what youâ€™d like to be, and youâ€™ve lost your true self forever.”

Source : Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.434, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Good basketball always starts with good defense!”
“Thereâ€™s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. Itâ€™s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 â€” sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.”
“Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.”
“When A R Rahman won the Oscars, I had a dream of being able to congratulate him in person. This dream is now a reality thanks to Airtel digital TV. This day will forever remain truly unforgettable.”
“And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. ... I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”
“I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.”

Source : Peter Hamilton, Willy Ronis, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1995). “Willy Ronis: photographs, 1926-1995”
“A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.”

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