Sophie Schiller > Sophie's Quotes

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“It's only a question of time before either you die or your motivation dies. Naturally we all hope to go first.”
― Sophie Schiller

“To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.”
― Benjamin Netanyahu

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Not necessarily a good leader or even adequate for the Detachment, the new Lieutenant was, however, proving to be good at mainly just looking out for his own best interests, something not lost on the First Sergeant or the rest of us.”
― Kregg Jorgenson, Do Bomb Dogs Dream of Chasing Butterflies?

“Not all skirmishes or small battles begin with shouted cries, clashing swords, or gunfire. Sometimes they just begin with a frustrated First Sergeant staring at the back of a less than stellar leader and muttering, "You have got to be f_____ kidding me." as that less than stellar leader is walking back to his quarters.”
― Kregg Jorgenson, Do Bomb Dogs Dream of Chasing Butterflies?

“Combat was always a game of luck, where few who took enormous chances knew that there was no such thing as luck, but rolled the proverbial dice anyway.”
― Kregg P J Jorgenson, Chasing Romeo: The Jungle War

“When you only had a five-man team operating behind the lines, you didn't push your already pushed luck.”
― Kregg P J Jorgenson, Chasing Romeo: The Jungle War

“Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.”
― Zaman Ali, MORALITY An Individual Dilemma