Breastworks Quotes & Sayings

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end. — Stonewall Jackson

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not. — Elie Wiesel

Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making. — C.S. Lewis

After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity. — Brandon Bays

The Americans' clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions. So it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The car was the iPhone of the 20th century. Kids these days don't have to drive anymore. They just go there virtually. — Jay Leno

What happens when we turn pro is, we finally listen to that still, small voice inside our heads. At last we find the courage to identify the secret dream or love or bliss that we have known all along was our passion, our calling, our destiny. — Steven Pressfield

In the hearts of children, there's so much trust and love. If only we could all cling throughout our lives to the wonder and innocence that are always present in a child. Our — Linda Thompson

For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic. — Danielle Steel

It's easy to get young gay men to tickle each other, right? Let's come up with a challenge: Let's get heterosexual men. How do we do that? We make it a competition, because then it's not gay. That explains the antipathy behind the gay-journalist comment. — David Farrier

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds. — Richard Paul Evans