Allan

“They’d been told, several times, by colleagues … that the sea was warmer over there [abroad], and the skies bluer, and the food was like nothing you could buy in London no matter how much you spent. But none of those colleagues had done what Tony had wanted to do when he got back: grab people by the lapels and shout at them, wide-eyed, until they agreed to book tickets. Most people in England, he thought, had no idea that within a few hours they could be somewhere that would make them begrudge every single second they’d ever spent in Hastings or Shegness or the Lake District.”
― Nick Hornby, Funny Girl

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

“Live each day like your hair's on fire!”
― Christina Waters

“Ideally, the objective of a counter-guerrilla program is not to kill or even capture the guerrilla, but to convince him to abandon a hopeless or worthless cause”
― Charles M. Simpson III, Inside the Green Berets: the First Thirty Years