#vet

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#enemy #false-friends #friends #friendship #friendship-quotes

After I was banned from the cemetery, I held a memorial for our fallen soldiers. But hugging a statue just isn’t the same as cuddling a veteran's skeleton. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #memorials #veterans #funny

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#been #being #biggest #combat #coming

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#naïveté #imagination

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#covet #despise #detest #dislike #envy

See it, learn it, do it ALL. ↗

— Jamie McCall

#adventure #adventurer #author #high-life #law-of-attraction

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path. ↗

— André Gide

#love #naivety #love

Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it. ↗

— Michel Templet

#pacifism #war #love

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight! ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#jingo #vetinari #vimes #war #men

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#inexperience #krakauer #mccandless #naivete #youth