#han

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. ↗

— John Keats

#fail #greatest #i #sooner #than

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗

— John Keegan

#change #great #great men #men #nations

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper. ↗

— John Keegan

#crashing #glorious #i #i think #into

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed? ↗

— John Keegan

#does #extraordinary #gone #happen #how

Some people are more terrorist than others. ↗

— John Keegan

#others #people #some #some people #terrorist

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

#always #battle #better #chinese #classics

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra. ↗

— Howard Keel

#being #decent #feeling #feeling good #fine

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack. ↗

— John Fogerty

#guy #her #his #how #i

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#afghanistan #any #big #bigger #country

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#dramatic #even #events #gradual #granted