"Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days."

-- Kliment Voroshilov

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Drinking Quotes

“...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.”

Source : Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.27, New Directions Publishing
“Professional sports is a business.”
“When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.”
“Roger â€œHurricaneâ€ Wilson is the real deal!”
“Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do”
“He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”
“As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?”

Source : Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1960). “The Leopard”, Pantheon Books
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”

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