Maquis Quotes & Sayings

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial. — Kedar Joshi

I've got one thing to say: I killed a lot of germans, and I'm only sorry I didn't kill more. — Nancy Wake

The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to really love someone requires commitment, fidelity and vulnerability. Mother Teresa wasn't "feeling" Christ's love, and she could have shut down. But she was up at 4:30 every morning for Jesus, and still writing to him, "Your happiness is all I want." — Brian Kolodiejchuk

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives
when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands. — George Eliot

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does. — Gene Wolfe

I entered the bridge from my ready room, assured Harry Kim that it wasn't "crunch time" yet, acknowledged another actor who was playing my first officer but who would soon be dead (Chakotay and Tuvok were still on the renegade Maquis ship, and we had not yet joined ranks), sat in the captain's chair, nodded to Mr. Paris, and said, "Engage. — Kate Mulgrew

I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world,
If they will patiently receive my medicine. — William Shakespeare

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal. — Salman Rushdie

They're making us think our thoughts are what we're thinking...I think.-Patrick Star — Stephen Hillenburg

Salvation is to accept one's place in the story of faith whose theme is shalom. — Daniel Taylor

dropped into France to organize the Maquis in the Vosges Mountains. He did damned well, — Jack Higgins