#battle

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Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come back to in the intervals between a greater love - the only real love - the lust for riches buried in the earth, that are your own if you can find them. Perhaps you do not call it home, even to yourself. Perhaps you call them 'my house,' 'my woman,' What if there was another 'my house,' 'my woman,' before this one? It makes no difference. This woman is enough for now. Perhaps the guns sounded too loud at Anzio or at Omaha Beach, at Guadalcanal or at Okinawa. Perhaps when they stilled again some kind of strength had been blasted from you that other men still have. And then again perhaps it was some kind of weakness that other men still have. What is strength, what is weakness, what is loyalty, what is perfidy? The guns taught only one thing, but they taught it well: of what consequence is life? Of what consequence is a man? And, therefore, of what consequence if he tramples love in one place and goes to find it in the next? The little moment that he has, let him be at peace, far from the guns and all that remind him of them. So the man who once was Bill Taylor has come back to his house, in the dusk, in the mountains, in Anahuac. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")


Cornell Woolrich


#cynical #cynicism #home #loyalty #noir

Don't worry know what you can't change. rest when you can so you'll be ready for tomorrows battle.


Richelle Mead


#rose #rose-hathaway #vampire #vampire-academy #change

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.


Erich Maria Remarque


#soldiers #war #freedom

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.


L. Ron Hubbard


#conflict #ideas #intelligence #progress #war

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.


Jack Adams


#battle #camp #harbor #midway #pearl

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.


Joseph Brodsky


#battle #between #good #life #really

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.


Tammy Bruce


#any #battle #campaigns #character #heat

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.


Warren E. Burger


#ancient #battle #blood #contest #go

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.


Prescott Bush


#american way #battle #belief #conduct #courage

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.


Cao Cao


#battle #certain #decline #defeated #doubts