Krokar Quotes & Sayings

For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors. — Tom Clancy

The three of us had a pact, governed by signals - pinching one another, agreeing to step fiercely on each other's toes when we felt riotous laughter welling up within us. It was not that any of us doubted the efficacy of group therapy for alcoholics (it is probably the only treatment), but, oh, dear heart, alcoholics in the loony bin! — Frederick Exley

I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something ... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then — Dolly Parton

He stares at his hands. Whatever word he wrote there, its been crossed off. There's only a black box. "Lola, you were the only person I wanted there that night. I was crazy about you, but I didn't know what to do. It was paralyzing. There were so many times when I wanted to take your hand, but ... I couldn't. That one small move felt impossible."
Now I'm staring at my hands, too. "I would have let you take it."
"I know." His voice croaks. — Stephanie Perkins

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows. — Masha Tupitsyn

You stand in a dark room and grow a tree in your chest.
The color pink is your national anthem.
You have fled the burning city, but your pocket smolders.
He bats his eyelids and dust flies.
You are a well trying to quench its own thirst,
a tiger licking its bloody paw. — Karen Finneyfrock

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. — Aaron McGruder

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The real trick is to let life, with all it's ordinary missteps and regrets, be consistently more mysterious and alluring then it's end. — Gail Caldwell

I'm a big fan of Aamir Khan ... Among actresses, I like Aishwarya Rai. — Virat Kohli