Officers Mess Quotes

#1. Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

William Manchester

#2. The Americans called theirs the Officers Club but the Canadians called ours the Officers Mess. The American term was the more honest; ours the more accurate. Drunken officers at play are messy.

R.J. Childerhose

#3. We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

Ken Jennings

#4. Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. It's all about the money.

Joseph Jackson

#6. Tell me you aren't crying. My whole image of you as a bad-ass warrior is crumbling.

Heather R. Blair

#7. It is always about themselves that the living ask, not about those who are to come. One man is concerned with leaving behind him an illustrious reputation, another wants his shame to be forgotten; all would like to follow the thread of their own actions' consequences; but

Italo Calvino

#8. Rulership and pants have nothing to do with each other!

Shinjirou

#9. You don't have to choose," he says quietly. "We chose you already.

T.J. Klune

#10. Knowing what you're doing' largely involves pretending to know what you're doing.

David Mitchell

#11. Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Sappho

#12. If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.

Nicolas Cage

#13. When I cannot feel God's love for me in my struggle, to have a friend grab my shoulder and say, "I love you, and I'm in this with you for the long haul" is, in some ways, an incarnation of God's love that I would otherwise have trouble resting in.

Wesley Hill

#14. Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

Dan Savage

#15. 'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.

Rose George