#war

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life. ↗

— James Blunt

#fees #four #give #helped #i

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#actor #character #entire #experience #far

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#anyone #ask #awards #ball #could

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art of war #best #country #destroy #enemy

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#inward #never #outward #puny #will

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#also #book #books #clumsy #creature

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#enemy #importance #strategy #supreme #thus

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#agents #army #close #commander #confidential

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#could #did #i #insane #island

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#came #certain #eagerly #forward #free