Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.
Yeah, I’ve always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.
It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.
You don’t gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.
I think it’s just natural when you’re governing, that it’s not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you’d like to be.
This is an issue that women are not interested in debating.
Any reform of that fundamental nature, potentially constitutional, it has to go to the people. It has to be a be a referendum, and that’s why it was a plebiscite in all of the provinces in which it’s been attempted.
Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall,” the paratroopers liked to say. “He forgot to put a roof on it.
The medics were the most popular, respected, and appreciated men in the company. Their weapons were first-aid kits, their place on the line was wherever a man called out that he was wounded.
Routine wears down vigilance.
Speirs was an officer with a reputation. Slim, fairly tall, dark hair, stern, ruggedly handsome, he cultivated the look of a leader, and acted it.
No war can be won without young men dying. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.
Discipline is what makes an army – and civilization.
When a man was hit hard enough for evacuation, he was usually very happy, and we were happy for him – he had a ticket out to the hospital, or even a ticket home – alive. “When a man was killed – he looked ‘so peaceful.’ His suffering was over.
That evening, the first Americans ever to enter Montana, the first ever to see the Yellowstone, the Milk, the Marias, and the Great Falls, the first Americans ever to kill a grizzly, celebrated their nation’s twenty-ninth birthday.
Despite himself, Webster was drawn to the people. “The Germans I have seen so far have impressed me as clean, efficient, law-abiding people,” he wrote his parents on April 14. They were churchgoers. “In Germany everybody goes out and works and, unlike the French, who do not seem inclined to lift a finger to help themselves, the Germans fill up the trenches soldiers have dug in their fields. They are cleaner, more progressive, and more ambitious than either the English or the French.”1.
The men of Easy Company lined the rails to see the Statue of Liberty slip astern. For nearly every one of them, it was his first trip outside the United States. A certain homesickness set in, coupled with a realization, as the regimental scrapbook Currahee put it, of “how wonderful the last year had been.
Each man in his own way had gone through what Richard Winters experienced: a realization that doing his best was a better way of getting through the Army than hanging around with the sad excuses for soldiers they met in the recruiting depots or basic training. They wanted to make their Army time positive, a learning and maturing and challenging experience.
They knew they were going into great danger. They knew they would be doing more than their part. They resented having to sacrifice years of their youth to a war they never made. They wanted to throw baseballs, not grenades, shoot a .22 rifle, not an M-1. But having been caught up in the war, they decided to be as positive as possible in their Army careers.
Anything was better than the blood and carnage, the grime and filth, the impossible demands made on the body – anything, that is, except letting down their buddies.