“The boomerang comes back to the hunter who has thrown it, only if it has missed its target.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“'Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day haven't we?' 'Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though.'”— Robert L. O'Connell, amazon.com
“When others were struggling to kill time, he was using it in hard study.”— Brooks D. Simpson, amazon.com
“It's not magic but it should seem like it is.”— Unknown Jazz Musician, rj-whenlovecomestotown.blogspot.com
“Take the brass knuckles off before you start. If you're big enough you don't need them and if you need them you're not big enough to push me around.”— Raymond Chandler, amazon.com
“'I get so tired of it.' 'Tired of what?' 'Hard little men in hard little offices talking hard little words that don't mean a goddamn thing.'”— Raymond Chandler, amazon.com
“War is the [strong] life, it is life in extremes, war taxes are the only ones man never hesitates to pay, as the budgets of the all the nations show us.”— William James, amazon.com
“It is said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments.”— Sean MacStionfain, amazon.com
“Never do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.”— Napoleon, amazon.com
“At the commencement of a campaign, to advance or not to advance is a matter for grave consideration, but when once the offensive has been assumed, it must be sustained to the last extremity.”— Napoleon, amazon.com
“The first qualification in a general-in-chief is a cool head, that is, a head which receives just impressions, and estimates things and objects at their real value. He must not allow himself to be elated by good news or depressed by bad.”— Napoleon, amazon.com
“To pay for the Marcomannic Wars, Marcus didn't raise taxes...he had an auction of palace property in the Forum of Trojan, selling even his wife's clothes.”— Anthony R Birley, amazon.com
“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”— George Santayana, amazon.com
“In the dangers of war, he was constant without taking undue risks, while daring with cool calculation—both ready to strike quickly his enemies and yet caution as well, depending on the needs of each particular situation. In these desperate conditions, he revealed a spirit that was full of confidence…”— Edward Gibbon, amazon.com
“Deal with this problem. Guys die because they don't take care of the first problem. Don't let the snowball roll.”— John Chatterton, amazon.com
“Always answer the first problem immediately and fully, or you're fucking dead.”— Robert Kurson, amazon.com