"A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors."

-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Marine Quotes #Knights Quotes #Endurance Quotes

“I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.”
“From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts of infidel and atheist, have all been for this purpose.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub
“A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.”
“All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.”
“I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.”
“You should just dump the whole saving the world plan and go with global domination. It's probably be more fun.”
“I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.”
“Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.”

Source : "TNT's 'Wanted' aims beyond usual suspects". www.today.com. August 1, 2005.

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