Robert Leckie Quotes

#1. [Admiral] Halsey was jubilant. Of the Princess-Saratoga strike, he wrote: 'I sincerely expected both air groups to be cut to pieces, and both carriers stricken if not lost. (I tried hard not to remember that my son Bill was aboard one of them.)

Robert Leckie

#2. I'd found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London.

Ben Aaronovitch

#3. We have met the enemy and have learned nothing more about him. I have, however, learned some things about myself. There are things men can do to one another that are sobering to the soul. It is one thing to reconcile these things with God, but another to square it with yourself.

Robert Leckie

#4. The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.

John Stahl-Wert

#5. Smell, the sense which somehow seems a joke, is the one most susceptible to outrage. It will give you no rest. One can close one's eyes to ugliness or shield the ears from sound; but from a powerful smell there is no recourse but flight.

Robert Leckie

#6. All the logic seemed to be on our side. The Marine Corps seemed a madness.

Robert Leckie

#7. It is glorious to drink the wine of the enemy.

Robert Leckie

#8. Only rear echelons with plenty of fat on them can afford such rich diseases, like an epicure with his gout.

Robert Leckie

#9. And everywhere I turned: Riley and Amelia.
I suppose this could have been because I was always following them around.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#10. This huge, blinding forest fire of happiness filled my chest when I was around him.

Mariana Zapata

#11. We advanced on the enemy with all the stealth of a circus.

Robert Leckie

#12. From night problems we learned one lasting lesson: when a map and a compass come into contact with a second lieutenant, prepare yourself for confusion. Throughout,

Robert Leckie

#13. What's wrong with love today? We started playing hard to get with the people that deserve our love, but kept on making it easy for those who didn't. Thus, the people who would be great at love began to fear it while those who give love a bad name were given more opportunities to taint it.

Kwapi Vengesayi

#14. You are not going to loot a candy shop in the middle of a war!

Rick Riordan

#15. The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

Thiruvalluvar

#16. It is an American weakness. The success becomes the sage. Scientists counsel on civil liberty; comedians and actresses lead political rallies; athletes tell us what brand of cigarette to smoke.

Robert Leckie

#17. Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes.

Robert Leckie

#18. My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

Hannah Simone