#embark

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave. ↗

— James Jones

#death #disembarkation #friends #graves #guadalcanal

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#embarked #equally #indeed #make #martial

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#convince #country #dire #dire need #drastic

We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#embark #euro #good #keen #kingdom

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#embarked #explanation #i #life #my life

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#changed #correct #could #development #embarked

On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object. ↗

— George Grey

#boat #clear #could #down #embarking

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing. ↗

— John Hewson

#detriment #embarking #exercise #hussein #i

I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us. ↗

— John Hewson

#i #i think #idea #journey #minister

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#doctors #embarked #feeling #had #holocaust