British Military Leadership Quotes & Sayings

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen. — James Buchan

We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools ... now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One ... The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers. — Justin Martyr

if you don't like what you are doing, quit doing it — LJ Sinnott

It's in a neighbor's house fiction begins. — Dermot Healy

Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time — Sunday Adelaja

It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you. — Jim Webb

A sound theory of value demands something different. It demands that good should be original and evil a mere perversion; that good should be the tree and evil the ivy; that good should be able to see all round evil (as when sane men understand lunacy) while evil cannot retaliate in kind; that good should be able to exist on its own while evil requires the good on which it is parasitic in order to continue its parasitic existence. — C.S. Lewis

There is no favorable wind for the sailor who doesn't know where to go — Seneca.

As I watched him, he turned it curiously, then pressed a button on the side of the case. The crystal kitty head popped up to reveal a hidden compact mirror.
"I think it's you," I chirped.
Ben wheeled around and smiled approvingly. "I like it. Very Japanese."
"Thank you," I said. "I also got something for you."
"I'm not wearing a wig."
"You're such a downer." I handed him a baseball cap, then took off my camera case and slung it around his neck. "There: Generic American Tourist. No one will look twice at you."
"I'll choose not to take that as an insult. — Hilary Duff

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. — Mike Thompson

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever. — Mark Batterson

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind. — Voltaire

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century. — Neil Sheehan

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. — Robert Musil

Pinkie means excited or happy, thumb means thinking or worried. I'm surprised I know
the meaning of these gestures. How closely have I been paying attention to him? — Stephanie Perkins