#war

Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#aware #being #eight #expected #get

Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the army. After a brief period of training at a base in Wüzburg, I arrived at the front, which by that time had already crossed the Rhine into Germany. There were well over a hundred in my company, all of whom were very young. One evening the company commander sent me with a message to battalion headquarters. I wandered all night long through destroyed, burning villages and farms, and when in the morning I returned to my company I found only the dead, nothing but dead, overrun by a combined bomber and tank assault. I could see only dead and empty faces, where the day before I had shared childhood fears and youthful laughter. I remember nothing but a wordless cry. Thus I see myself to this very day, and behind this memory all my childhood dreams crumble away. ↗

— Johann Baptist Metz

#theology #world-war-ii #dreams

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#composing #directed #done #film #great

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#carrying #continuation #instrument #intercourse #means

War is the continuation of politics by other means. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#means #other #politics #war

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#barriers #become #break #down #eccentric

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#beginning #book #forward #i #imagination

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#compassion #contradictions #duty #fall #i

All the gods are dead except the god of war. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#except #god #gods #war

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist. ↗

— Levon Helm

#faster #go #hard #little #lord