“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“No war can be won without young men dying. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.”
― Band Of Brothers 25th Anniversay Ed
― Band Of Brothers 25th Anniversay Ed
“It all happened," Lipton summed up, "because Shifty saw a tree almost a mile away that hadn't been there the day before.”
― Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
― Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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