#ren

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#any #battle #did #engaged #forces

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#before #believe #better #better off #book

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#came #children #daughters #itself #life

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#before #bow #children #cry #does

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#adherents #calls #consider #despise #false

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#come #difference #dream #fears #follows

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #death

One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be. ↗

— William Stolzenburg

#death

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. ↗

— Andre Gide

#authors #aware #become #differences #disagreement