Top 59 Quotes About Shaara
#1. See the strength of the blue lines in front of them. But it was
Jeff Shaara
#2. In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces like wide white dirty flowers.
Michael Shaara
#3. Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.
Jeff Shaara
#4. There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just this moment he did not believe at all ... there was nothing beyond the sound of the guns ... not even silence, just an end.
Michael Shaara
#5. And so, pointing fingers become pointing guns, because nobody listens to fingers.
Jeff Shaara
#6. Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.
Jeff Shaara
#7. If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue.
Michael Shaara
#8. The bands were everywhere, close and faraway, a blend of discordant noise. He passed close to one now, a half-dozen drummers pounding away, a sergeant leading them in a rhythm that was no rhythm at all, and behind, men with fifes, squealing out something that had no resemblance to a song.
Jeff Shaara
#9. Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.
Michael Shaara
#10. Instructions like he's never been on a field of
Jeff Shaara
#11. I don't really understand it. Never have. The more I think on it the more it horrifies me. How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?
Michael Shaara
#12. Jackson is gone - not entirely gone; Jackson was there today watching, and Ewell sees his eyes - but you cannot blame him for not being Jackson. You must make do with the tools God has given for the job.
Michael Shaara
#13. I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend.
Jeff Shaara
#14. Ross said, "They play even during an attack. Not very good. But inspiring. Have you heard the Rebel yell?" Fremantle nodded. "Godawful sound. I expect they learned it from Indians.
Michael Shaara
#15. Is that not what a commander must do, earn respect, give them discipline and ... love them?
Jeff Shaara
#16. The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.
Michael Shaara
#17. To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. That is ... a very hard thing to do. No other profession requires it. That is one reason why there are so very few good officers. Although there are many good men.
Michael Shaara
#18. Sorry, ma'am, but we need a big damn army right now, and there's no better way to make one than to gather up a bunch of boys and tell them how much fun they're going to have killing their enemy.
Jeff Shaara
#19. There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.
Michael Shaara
#20. It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.
Michael Shaara
#21. Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.
Michael Shaara
#22. Lee stopped, looked north. I twas working almost like a plan. It was possible to see Intention in it ... he gave no further directions ... it had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.
Michael Shaara
#23. General Lee, if it will please God, we will kill them all.
Jeff Shaara
#24. The best way to defend is to attack and the best way to attack is to attack. At Chancellorsville, Lee was asked why he attacked when he was outnumbered three to one. He said he was too weak to defend. - GEORGE PATTON
Jeff Shaara
#25. I spend half my time in Montana, the other half in New York City. In unique ways, both places help me unwind, and both are the most satisfying places to live I can imagine.
Jeff Shaara
#26. Lee made small greetings to the others, saw the sour expression of Jubal Early, Ewell's division commander,
Jeff Shaara
#27. A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?
Michael Shaara
#28. have to know, he thought. I have to get out there and talk to people and see for myself. But there's nothing I can do now, and, dammit, I need some sleep.
Jeff Shaara
#29. Men with power either trumpet to everyone just how powerful they are, or they use that power effectively by keeping quiet about it, and going about their duties.
Jeff Shaara
#30. Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.
Jeff Shaara
#31. A true gentleman has no vices, but he allows you your own.
Michael Shaara
#32. He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game.
Michael Shaara
#34. I wish we could take the hill. Could flood right on over it and end the war, wipe them all away in one great motion. But we can't. No matter how much I wish ... or trust in God ...
Michael Shaara
#35. The great white joker in the sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birth. No two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance, not a leaf or a tree.
Michael Shaara
#36. Quick words did not always mean a quick mind.
Jeff Shaara
#37. The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men.
Jeff Shaara
#38. Who blamed Lee. Longstreet knew that somewhere
Jeff Shaara
#39. Longstreet stayed up talking, as long as there was company, as long as there was a fire. Because when the fire was gone and the dark had truly come there was no way he could avoid the dead faces of his children.
Michael Shaara
#40. Two things an officer must do, to lead men. This from old Ames, who never cared about love: You must care for your men's welfare. You must show physical courage. Well,
Jeff Shaara
#41. If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.
Michael Shaara
#42. Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.
Jeff Shaara
#43. Saw the face of Robert Lee. Incredible eyes. An honest man, a simple man. Out of date. They all ride to glory, all the plumed knights.
Michael Shaara
#44. He is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers.
Jeff Shaara
#45. Everybody knows all the movements. General So and So should have done such and such. God knows we all try. We none of us lose battles on purpose. But now on this field what can we do that's undone?
Michael Shaara
#46. Burnside was in the best position on the field, could have moved at any time toward a weak defense, a defense that was weaker still
Jeff Shaara
#47. Worn-out shoes. Few of the men had anything solid on their feet, and the curses toward the supply officers went mostly unheeded by the officers, who had worries of their own.
Jeff Shaara
#48. But he had heavy hands with thick muscular fingers and black fingernails and there was a look of power to him, a coiled tight set to the way he stood, balanced, ugly, slightly contemptuous, but watchful, trying to gauge Chamberlain's strength.
Shaara
#49. Responsibility, had been shifted from the president's weakening shoulders. It was now up
Jeff Shaara
#51. If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.
Jeff Shaara
#52. Annoyance, Eisenhower knew that the prolonged
Jeff Shaara
#53. He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering.
Michael Shaara
#54. In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.
Michael Shaara
#55. The earth was actually shuddering. It was as if you were a baby and your mother was shuddering with cold.
Michael Shaara
#56. The world around him grew silent; there was something in the air. The odor of dead meat came down on the wind, drifting through the trees. Soft and sour, the smell of distant death.
Jeff Shaara
#57. Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?
Michael Shaara
#58. Vegetables were almost nonexistent, and what passed for meat was either rancid or pure fat. The men were surviving on crackers and moldy flour. Lee was beginning to understand what this meant to the fighting strength of the army.
Jeff Shaara
#59. It's so rarely about military genius, who the greater tactician might be, who sat higher in his class at West Point. It's about mistakes, some of them unavoidable, some of them purely stupid. My job is to make fewer mistakes than the enemy,
Jeff Shaara
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