Court Martial Quotes

#1. At dawn, after a summary court martial, Arcadio was shot against the wall of the cemetery. In the last two hours of his life he did not manage to understand why the fear that had tormented him since childhood had disappeared.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#2. You might argue that we have become a little too forgiving because, if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is certainly the risk that we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime.

Martin Dempsey

#3. To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

Eddie Slovik

#5. If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

H.L. Mencken

#6. I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.

Stanley Kubrick

#7. many a medal awarded in any war represents just the shade of difference which separates a commendation from a court martial.

Charles Lockwood

#8. Dying's easy." Illyan's drawn features grew distant. How much did he remember of his agonized pleading to Miles for an easy death, so few weeks ago? "Living's hard. Let the son of a bitch stand his court-martial. Every last eternal minute of it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#9. Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.

Walther Von Brauchitsch

#10. If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.

Vincent De Paul

#11. He seems indeed to have been a man of exceptional kindness and amiability,

George Santayana

#12. The present is precious gift.
The past cannot be replayed.
The future is no guarantee.
Live in the present.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I guess that makes everyone in boots on the ground a murderer

Kenneth Eade

#14. Poetry is devil's wine.

Saint Augustine

#15. When you're separated from the people you know and love, every emotion is multiplied. Your mind becomes a very clear prism, into which every feeling enters, then becomes seven or eight different shades.

Curtis Dawkins

#16. One day you will realise that for your life to change for the better, you must first change for the better.

Leon Brown

#17. After the 'X Factor,' there were opportunities everywhere. It was all there waiting for me to enjoy. I didn't understand business.

Rebecca Ferguson

#18. To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.

Douglas Coupland

#19. The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!

Javad Alizadeh

#20. You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Elizabeth Edwards

#21. I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

Maurice Allais

#22. I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

Raf Simons