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‘In war it’s the winning counts. The rest is for fools to sing about.’
Savour the little moments, son, that’s my advice. They’re what life is. All the things that happen while you’re waiting for something else.
When you’re planning what to do, always think of doing nothing first, see where that gets you.
What is love anyway, but finding someone who suits you? Someone who makes up for your shortcomings? Someone you can work with. Work on.
Perhaps that was the moment you grew up, when you learned your parents were just as fallible as everyone else.
It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.
There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work. There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.”
“You can’t say that civilisation don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way” Will Rogers
“Patience is as fearsome a weapon as rage. More so, in fact, ’cause fewer men have it.”
Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is for taking the credit.
“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”
“You killed a man?” Craw raised his arms, helplessly let them drop. “It’s a battle. Everyone’s at it. Some live, some die, some pay, some don’t. If you’ve come through all right, be thankful. Try to earn it.”
“Mercy and cowardice are the same.”
“You find out what a man really is, when he’s facing death.”
