The Battle Of Belleau Wood Quotes & Sayings

This time, after a moment, he called her bluff.

"Perhaps Philippa and I should be thrown together a little more. She might become attached to me if she knew me better." Kate, brightening visibly, ignored the gleam in his eye.

"That would make her sorry for you?"

"It might. The object of any sort of clinical study deserves compassion, don't you think?"

"Snakes don't," said Katherine inconsequently. "I hate snakes."

"And yet you feed them on honey cakes and forbid them to defend themselves."

"Defencelessness is not a noted characteristic of serpents. Anyhow, I can't have them lying rattling about the house. It gets on the nerves."

"It does if you handle it by rattling back. — Dorothy Dunnett

I was a complete loon, but I don't regret a bit of it. — Rhona Mitra

Retreat, hell we just got here! — Lloyd Williams

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand. — Simon Cowell

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of. — Bai Ling

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good. — Janine Di Giovanni

The bottom line is that we are all inclined to denial when the truth is too costly - whether emotionally, intellectually, or financially. As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"36 — Naomi Klein

You want to grow. To compete effectively - - even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position - - you look at who you're competing with. And everyone you're competing with is changing to get better, sometimes dramatically. — Tim Finchem

Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday. — Achille Mbembe

One can lose themselves in the twilight, when there are no colors to guide the way. — Vanna Smythe

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. — Karl Kraus

It ... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that. — Dick Spring