Russel Preissner

“Can the military art be learned in the games and hunts in which you pass your youth?” The”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Still, he never felt that the sermons he wrote at the cottage were good. By the time he got back to Washington to preach them, they no longer excited him. They seemed cold, lifeless. This was probably because Peter's best sermons rose out of the soil of emotion in his own heart. That emotion had to be a present, valid reality. He could not conjure it up.”
― Catherine Marshall, A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall

“For a second, fire flared inside of him, not like mine, but the fire of a man about to lose control.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

“Christ, I'm in Hell and they wear uniforms.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle