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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d6196ab | It is worth noting that the desert provides every kind of torment-- heat, cold, rain, flash floods, windstorms, biting insects, and sandstorms, sometimes all on the same day. | Michael Korda | ||
| 876a3d1 | Across some of the harshest and most difficult terrain in the world, led by a man who already had a price on his head. | Michael Korda | ||
| 5acebed | My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his | Michael Korda | ||
| c3207d1 | It is a reflection of a well-known social problem during the Victorian age, when female servants were often made pregnant by the master of the house or one of his sons. | Michael Korda | ||
| b276a7a | No matter how peaceful a situation might seem, you could never be protected from sudden, unexpected violence that might also engulf the stranger. | Michael Korda | ||
| a1cc391 | For the first time it was clear to those who listened to Churchill's speech--and the whole country listened carefully--that all of the easy presumptions that had shored up appeasement, among them belief in the French Army, the legendary strength of the Maginot Line, the fighting qualities of the BEF, above all the hope that a deal of some kind might be made with Hitler at the last moment, were all swept away by his stark realism, and by the.. | Michael Korda | ||
| b382152 | None of this means of course that Robert E. Lee wasn't influenced by his father, or didn't inherit some of his better characteristics. Like Henry Lee, Robert was tall, physically strong, a born horseman and soldier, and so courageous that even his own soldiers often begged him to get back out of range, in vain of course. He had his father's gift for the sudden flank attack that would throw the enemy off balance, and also his father's abilit.. | confederacy general-lee henry-lee robert-e-lee | Michael Korda | |
| e2bad75 | This night, however, she surprised me by getting down on her "poor old knees" (as she always referred to them) beside me and told me to pray with her "for the safety of the British Army in France." Her own palms were pressed tightly together, and there were tears in her eyes behind her gold-rimmed pince-nez. She usually said her prayers long after I had said mine and gone to bed, and she had so far as I know no relatives in the BEF. It was .. | Michael Korda | ||
| ee86d90 | I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." He had an instinctive understanding of the fact that the British as a people dislike boasting, and pride themselves not on victory but on being able to "take it." | Michael Korda | ||
| c78421e | One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals." Michael Korda" | Change Your Life Publishing | ||
| 9321ed6 | Almost the first thing I learned about being an editor was that it was hard work. To be sure, ditchdiggers and miners have it worse, but for sheer, numbing, endless (I do not, deliberately, say mindless) work, editing books is hard to beat. | Michael Korda | ||
| 5caedc5 | It was soul-destroying work, apt to turn anyone cynical, for the sad, awful truth was that there was hardly any evidence at all of talent in the slush pile and plenty of proof, for those who needed it, that the country was full of crazy people armed with typewriters--far more of them even than of crazy people armed with guns. | Michael Korda | ||
| 47e0e20 | And like all the better professions, editing is something of an art, too, if it's done well, and something of a mystery as well. Nobody teaches it, of course; you're born to it, the way a good surgeon is born with the right hands; it's something you either can or can't do, though apprenticeship doesn't hurt. | Michael Korda | ||
| d134ff7 | It was the face of a nonreligious ascetic, capable of enduring hardship and pain beyond what most men would even want to contemplate, a true believer in other people's causes, a curious combination of scholar and man of action, and, most important of all, a dreamer. | Michael Korda | ||
| 8da3bbb | A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life... . He is not one of them... . In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of my English self, and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes, and destroyed it all for me. At the same time I could not sincerely take on the Arab skin: it was an affectation only. | Michael Korda | ||
| 18439dc | Howeitat, Auda's own tribe, where they were feasted with one of those lavish meals that Lawrence loathed so much: hot grease and pieces of mutton on a bed of rice, decorated with the singed heads of the slaughtered sheep. | Michael Korda | ||
| 09f8b2a | Hawk looked at Tony without speaking. He had three gunshot wounds and still could barely stand, but | Robert B. Parker | ||
| d9bbdee | Heavy lifting is good for the soul but bad for the back, and tends to interfere with lolling about. | Tony Hawks | ||
| 9f19ee5 | The centurions were the backbone of the legions, professional long-service soldiers who took the name of Rome from India to Scotland--the finest N.C.O.s in history. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| cfe07a1 | In that century, a man adventuring by sea in the Mediterranean was likely to find the wheel of fortune turn full circle in a matter of a few hours. Dragut, greatest of all the corsairs after Barbarossa, saw La Valette when he was a galley slave and secured for him slightly more favourable conditions. Eight years later, when Dragut himself was captured by the Genoese admiral Giannettino Doria, Valette happened to be present. He sympathized w.. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 722a213 | Carthage was a spider's web of trade and communications that spread eastward to Egypt and the Levant, and westward as far as scarcely imaginable places beyond Spain. Where the Mediterranean issued between the giant Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar and Ceuta) into the misty Ocean that lapped the whole world round, the Carthaginians had planted trading posts. Their interests extended as far north as Britain and the Baltic, as well as to the Can.. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| f15ed0f | According to Polybius, in the first major engagement between the Carthaginians and Romans in 218 B.C. at the river Trebia the two consuls with their combined forces had an army of 16,000 legionaries and 20,000 allied infantry. The great disadvantage under which the Romans laboured--at any rate in the early phases of the war--was that the consuls were changed every year and, when the two were together, they commanded the combined force in ro.. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| baea75e | Roman tactics in battle were comparatively simple and, since they had proved so successful in previous wars, were used against the Carthaginians until the latter demonstrated, by a flexibility designed to match each new occasion, that what had triumphed over Latins and Greeks and Gallic tribes needed adaptation. First of all, the Roman front line would open fire with their throwing spears, following this up with a charge with their swords--.. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 88af1d4 | Hannibal had no other sure source of reserves but the Gauls of Italy: he was dependent upon them, and the whole success of the expedition was dependent upon him staying alive. His hopes at this time must also have been geared to the possibility of seducing away from Rome the Latin allies, who in many respects formed the bulk of her armies. If he could shatter the confederation that held these states together he could deprive Rome of a princ.. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| b28b1f6 | Against three million men fought in this place Four thousand Peloponnesians, face to face. | Ernle Bradford | ||
| 9c0d7d0 | I drank so much in Peter that Russia should be proud of me! | Anton Chekhov | ||
| f1ef087 | One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work. | Anton Chekhov | ||
| b67cb57 | If the Greeks were--as they were indeed--a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves first of all and, secondly, of their state. | Ernle Bradford | ||
| 4c42d30 | Size isn't important', he quipped. I have never adhered to this view. As far as I'm concerned, people who say size isn't important, aren't big enough to admit that they're wrong | Tony Hawks | ||
| e43d7fd | In the years following Hannibal's birth, his father Hamilcar had fought doggedly and with great skill to preserve the remnants of the Carthaginian garrisons in western Sicily. That he was finally unsuccessful was because the Romans had been quick to learn an all-important lesson--to succeed in the Mediterranean theatre it is essential to have command of the sea. In the early stages of this great war the Carthaginians, with centuries of expe.. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 343a3cd | In the spring of 236 B.C. Hamilcar and his forces crossed from North Africa into Europe. This was a momentous occasion: the invasion of the European continent by a Semitic and African army. Foreshadowing the great Arab invasions of many centuries later, it gave warning that the countries on the northern rim of the Mediterranean basin were no longer safe from any enemy to the south. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| d311572 | But the greatest weakness of the Carthaginian lay in his lack of a political aim of any consequence. His immediate political aim was to seduce from Rome the allies within her confederacy, restoring to them their freedom. But freedom for what? | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 756a1e1 | Fabius, as defender of the land, had time on his hands and he also had manpower. He took over the two legions of the consul Gnaeus Servilius and added a further two legions to the army that now lay at his disposal. At the same time he gave orders for all the people who lay ahead of Hannibal's line of march to abandon their farms, burn the buildings, and destroy the crops. (Centuries later his basic strategy was to be adopted by the Russian .. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 5c46d3d | Hannibal seems to have set out from Cartagena about mid-June in 218 B.C. and to have been five months between Cartagena and the plains of the Po. It was, therefore, mid-October at the earliest when he halted at the watershed above Italy and gazed southward. Undoubtedly he had not intended to cross the Alps so late, having hoped, perhaps, to make a start in May. He had been delayed, as has been suggested, by the late arrival of many of his t.. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 90b59d5 | Qart Hadasht, New Town, Carthage to the Romans, was traditionally said to have been founded in 814 B.C. by Phoenician traders who had discovered an ideal site for a trading settlement on a small peninsula well sheltered and deep in the Gulf of Tunis. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 5f63749 | Livy gives conflicting figures as to the number of men who started out and the number lost in the crossing. Some of these are so exaggerated that they were clearly part of later Roman propaganda, designed to inflate the Roman ego as to the size of the army that their forefathers had faced. For instance, one of the Latin sources which he quotes has Hannibal arriving in Italy with 100,000 foot and 20,000 horse--far more than he started out wi.. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 162e1bf | One good deed may sometimes lead to another, but it is certain that an evil one will almost inevitably breed its fellow. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 1c0255c | It was they who had given the island the name Maleth, 'A Haven', which was later corrupted by the Greeks into Melita ('Honey') from which the modern name of Malta derives. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| c5fe020 | any | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 9071cd2 | There were about 12,000 inhabitants in Malta, most of them poor peasants speaking a kind of Arabic dialect. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| b5af225 | He is the sphinx whose riddle still eludes us. | Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | ||
| 15935e9 | I was born into the wrong generation. How I would have loved to have been a dashing young man in the 1930s and 1940s when dance bands and orchestras played at dancehalls, and you could hold your partner close and whisper sweet nothings as you waltzed into her heart. | Tony Hawks | ||
| bf4fa43 | COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA was first presented by The Theatre Guild at the Booth Theatre, New York City, on February 15, 1950, with the following cast: (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) DOC Sidney Blackmer MARIE Joan Lorring LOLA Shirley Booth TURK Lonny Chapman POSTMAN Daniel Reed MRS. COFFMAN Olga Fabian MILKMAN ]ohn Randolph MESSENGER Arnold Schulman BRUCE Robert Cunningham ED ANDERSON Wilson Brooks ELMO HUSTON Paul Krauss DIRECTED BY Daniel Mann | William Inge | ||
| f3268b2 | He who constantly swims in the ocean loves dry land. | Anton Chekhov |