Shaara Jeff Quotes

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

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

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die. ~ Jeff Shaara

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

Lee made small greetings to the others, saw the sour expression of Jubal Early, Ewell's division commander, ~ Jeff Shaara

As the months passed, even the strident voices from the newspapers had begun to moderate, and the passion to put Preston's neck in a noose had become subdued. It was a relief to Adams that with the trial now scheduled for October, he had time to work with Josiah Quincy to prepare a case based on law and reason. And it meant he could spend time with his family and enjoy the wonderful peace of the farm. ~ Jeff Shaara

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

And so, pointing fingers become pointing guns, because nobody listens to fingers. ~ Jeff Shaara

World will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ... ~ Jeff Shaara

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

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

Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones. ~ Jeff Shaara

Who blamed Lee. Longstreet knew that somewhere ~ Jeff Shaara

Responsibility, had been shifted from the president's weakening shoulders. It was now up ~ Jeff Shaara

Instructions like he's never been on a field of ~ Jeff Shaara

GENERAL GRANT: "There is only one way to make war, Colonel. You have to HURT somebody. Maybe you have to hurt EVERYBODY. Make them feel it, understand what it is we are doing out here. If this was worth fighting in the first place, then it is worth winning. We cannot win unless we fight. If we fight, men will die. If more of THEM die, then we will win. It has nothing to do with cities, or government, or what is barbaric and what is civilized. We are HERE, and the enemy ois over there, and we must give the newspapers the horrifying truth, then the people will know. If Mr. Lincoln does not want me to win this war, then he can make that decision. But there is no other way to see it. If these men do not fight and bleed and die, if we do not make the rebels quit by destroying their will to fight, by destroying their army, then the only other choice is to walk away. ~ Jeff Shaara

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

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

General Lee, if it will please God, we will kill them all. ~ Jeff Shaara

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

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

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

Annoyance, Eisenhower knew that the prolonged ~ Jeff Shaara

See the strength of the blue lines in front of them. But it was ~ Jeff Shaara

Every moment is a chance to choose. ~ Jeff Goins

You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers ... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that! ~ Jeff Foxworthy

step step step no no no plop plop plop in i go ~ Jeff Kinney

Been there done that, bought the t-shirt
Chapter 2 ~ Jeff Lindsay

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike. ~ Jeff Bridges

He was a great man. And he was also me. ~ Jeff Goldblum

He was Control, and he was in control. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

Control me ... release me ... forget about me. ~ Jeff Hardy

In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months. ~ Jeff Dunham

The money was tobacco money, not from the growing end but the manufacturing; they were from Winston-Salem, and there was plenty of it. Even Jeff who was a younger son (as Amy's father had been, in the days before the increased popularity of cigarettes boosted the fortune) could look forward to something over a million in his own name after three brothers by his father's first wife had got theirs. ~ Shelby Foote

If the gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot, you might be a redneck. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world. ~ Jeff Ament

I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife. ~ Jeff Bridges

Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting. ~ Jeff Bridges

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades. ~ Jeff Daniels

We're on a planet. At the same time. In the Universe ... Let's do something Great Together! ~ Jeff Byington

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

He had committed hanky-panky with paperwork, and if something in the System is committed to paper, it becomes transubstantiated into a Sacred Relic. To ~ Jeff Lindsay

She really did like me, the idiot. ~ Jeff Lindsay

If you don't have anything good to say about someone, you must be talking about Hillary Clinton. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for. ~ Jeff Kinney

Memorization is not as vital a discipline as fulfilling curiosity with research and reasoning ... Internet and Google literacy should be taught to help students vet facts and judge reliability. ~ Jeff Jarvis

The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology. ~ Jeff Bezos

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come. ~ Jeff Goins

Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers). ~ Jerry Saltz

Purchase the book of Penster in the Amazon and Kindle Store and read, we hope you enjoy the benefits of the knowledge and wisdom of the Penster. ~ Jeff Bezos

I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next. ~ Jeff Tweedy

orders at home. Over the following ~ Jeff Hobbs

I record the events of my life, filling up one notebook after another. Maybe I'm not getting the details exactly right, but it doesn't matter. The strict facts hold no currency here. What counts is the saliva I just spat on this very sheet of paper. The thick gob slowly dissolves a small circle in the text and turns the words translucent. The ink starts to bleed. The fibers loosen. If you run your fingers along this paragraph, you'll find the site where I stabbed my thumb straight through the page. There is an entire world in that hole. ~ Jeff Jackson

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work. ~ Jeff Garlin

I wake up one day and it's twenty-plus years later, and here I am still. That's getting left behind. And even then, you can have a decent life. You know why I'm still here? It's because I'm content. Maybe even happy. I found my path. My life is simple. I wake up in the morning. I eat my Cheerios, drink my coffee, think my thoughts. I go home after work and sit on my back patio and pet my dog and listen to music and myself breathing. It feels good to be alive and exist. Most things haven't worked out for me - especially love - but that's all right. I'm not as pretty as I used to be. More of my life's behind me than in front of me. Who knows how many years I took off it while I was partying. But I'm a lot healthier now, if you can believe it.
"I get lonely sometimes, but so does everyone else. We're all looking for some sort of salvation in something sometimes we try to find it in people. We find out salvation, and it slips through our fingers. We find it again. We get left behind. Living is hurting, but I'll take living over the alternative any day. Consciousness is a marvelous gift. It took almost dying to make me realize that. Hell, I'm just rambling now. Anyway, having said all this, you did not get left behind. ~ Jeff Zentner

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely. ~ Matt Cameron

Pop culture mirrored the segregation. ~ Jeff Chain

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated. ~ Jeff Bezos

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction. ~ Jeff Bridges

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger. ~ Jeff Bridges

I'm still good friends with everybody from 'Teen Wolf.' I still see them, and I go to Jeff Davis' for 'Teen Wolf' night when I can. It was such a rewarding experience. That's such a fun set. ~ Adelaide Kane