Paul Fussell Quotes

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Paul Fussell

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

  AJ McLean
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• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
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• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
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  • Often

• There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Things
  • Afraid
  • Others

• I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Work
  • Dignity
  • Queen

• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Age
  • Father

• Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Real
  • Home
  • Failure

• Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

  

  Audrey MacLean
  • War
  • Stop

• My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • Great
  • Long
  • Friend

• It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.

  

  Jason Day
  • Learning

• Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Job
  • Giving

• If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I'll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want to be part of films that are watched, films that earn money and are new age, with author-backed roles.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Money
  • Age
  • Song

• You are going to be what you put in your body, so I try to teach that to my kids, and the kids around me.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Kids

• People don't understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they're not all the way there, but it's elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Team

• The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• 'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • War
  • Lost
  • Vietnam War

• Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Peace
  • Fight

• The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

  

  Paul Fussell
  • War
  • Sitting
  • Wondering