Gurkhas Soldiers Quotes & Sayings

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. — Stephen Covey

There's no rule book that tells you how to act in every given situation in life, you know? So what I always say is that it's always better to err on the side of kindness. That's the secret. If you don't know what to do, just be kind. You can't go wrong. — R.J. Palacio

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions. — Baltasar Gracian

The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took the gamble or not. And when your cards were shit, you bluffed if the pot was worth it, and if you had balls. — Nora Roberts

I blinked down the street where the jeep had vanished. I felt the unexplainable urge to storm after them and do something I'd hoped I'd regret -like choke Marcie with her stupid red thong. — Becca Fitzpatrick

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity. — Claudio Hummes

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new. — Elizabeth Gilbert

He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe. — George Herbert

Are you going to cut my throat?" Mark asked.
I'm going to cur your hair. Hold still," Christina said.
"As my lady requests. — Cassandra Clare

British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom. — Martin McGuinness

Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more. — Donna Tartt

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. Jewish proverb — Atticus Aristotle