Mostrom Marine Quotes & Sayings

If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him? — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I love your books when I read them I can't stop reading them. — Charlie Higson

Your father sounds frightening," Trayton said.
"He once made a general cry."
"No."
"I shit you not. The guy had to retire after that. I mean, really, who's going to follow your orders after some damn colonel's reduced you to tears? — Jennifer Rardin

The learned man who does not act up to his knowledge is like a patient who describes the qualities of a medicine without using it or like a hungry man who describes the taste of a food without eating it. — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect after being under water. His clothes were perfectly dry. He was standing by the edge of a small pool - not more than ten feet from side to side in a wood. The trees grew close together and were so leafy that he could get no glimpse of the sky. All the light was green light that came through the leaves: but there must have been a very strong sun overhead, for this green daylight was bright and warm. It was the quietest wood you could possibly imagine. There were no birds, no insects, no animals, and no wind. You could almost feel the trees growing. The pool he had just got out of was not the only pool. There were dozens of others - a pool every few yards as far as his eyes could reach. You could almost feel the trees drinking the water up with their roots. This wood was very much alive. — C.S. Lewis

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display. — Allan Bloom

Friendship is the underlying element, the common denominator of every relationship. — Shahla Khan

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. — F. Sionil Jose

Selfishness is not a virtue. Altruism is not a moral weakness. Taxation is the price we pay for civilization. — Darryl Cunningham

A secret life taught me: it doesn't get easier, you become stronger. — Asma Naqi

I'm a happy-go-lucky guy. — Dontrelle Willis

There were many factors that made a handgun either accurate or not accurate. The velocity of the round and the length of the barrel were the most important, aided or not by aerodynamic subtleties like the degree of spin imparted by the rifling grooves, which either worked well or didn't, depending on the bullet. Precision of manufacture was influential, with careful machining of quality metal much preferred over casting from leftover slag. Not that anything much mattered at seven feet. A pore to the left or a wrinkle to the right was immaterial. The human face was a big enough target, generally hard to miss at close quarters, and the man-on-first's was no exception. — Lee Child

I am a galley slave to pen and ink. — Honore De Balzac

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. — Sydney Smith