Bernotas Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Military operations alone cannot defeat an insurgency because only economic development and political action can address most sources of disaffection. If military operations are not conducted consistent with political objectives or occur without economic development, they are certain to alienate the population further, reduce the amount of intelligence available to [...] security forces, and strengthen rather than weaken the enemy. — H.R. McMaster

All I am saying, is there is evidence, biological and genetic, that the existence of mermaids is possible, if not probable. Over time, evolution can be revolutionary, I like to say." -Professor Nathaniel Hand — Robert Woolcott

When everyone you know is on the verge of drowning, you don't stop to tell the person next to you that you don't like swimming. — Veronica Rossi

Fools!" said Bard. "Why waste words and wrath on those unhappy creatures? Doubtless they perished first in fire, before Smaug came to us." Then even as he was speaking, the thought came into his heart of the fabled treasure of the Mountain lying without guard or owner, and he fell suddenly silent. He thought of the Master's words, and of Dale rebuilt, and filled with golden bells, if he could but find the men. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. — Vladimir Nabokov

The corporation that shrinks from the light would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive. — Theodore Roosevelt

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. — Charles Dickens

If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time. — Janet Turpin Myers