Quotes About Richard Winters

#1. Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

Markus Zusak

#2. That night, I thanked God for seeing me through that day of days and prayed I would make it through D plus 1. I also promised that if some way I could get home again, I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.

Richard Winters

#3. Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to load.

Ted Kooser

#4. The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

Richard Winters

#5. Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

Edith Hamilton

#7. Eternity begins now.

Greg Farshtey

#8. Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#9. The butterfly is the totem of transformation and change and a symbol of courage.

Mary Alice Monroe

#10. The war we must must win is fought within.

Tom Payne

#11. I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No ... but I served in a company of heroes.'

Richard Winters

#12. The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming ... (some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they are expressed in such a way that they can never be shown to be false.

Neil Postman

#13. We salute the rank not the man

Richard Winters

#14. To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

Dejan Stojanovic

#15. Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.

Richard Winters

#16. Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

Nicolas Chamfort

#17. The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Arthur Henderson

#18. When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.

Richard Lewis

#19. He said, I like girls from broken homes who are crazy about chocolate and who love the rain. I've been waiting for a girl like that for a long time.

Mian Mian