The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Heart...
A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air and sun as they gallantly cast a shade over the earth. On the horizon a florid vessel of mountains trailed to the never-end...
In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to...
[Johann climbs up to the bridge, places himself between Kriechbaum and Lt. Werner. Sniffs the air] Lt. Werner: It's good for you, fresh air, right Johann? Johann: [Spits] Nah. [Johann climbs back down in the ship] Kriechbaum: They're strange, these e...
Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really can't do in the first place. You can no more ban a word than you can ban the air. In fact, language is a lot like air –...
You can’t, except in the lowest animal sense, be in love with a girl if you know (and keep on remembering) that all the beauties both of her person and of her character are a momentary and accidental pattern produced by the collision of atoms, and ...
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
Happiness is a heart condition and not a state of affairs.
A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.
Ignorance is not a capital crime. It is a correctable condition.
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.
Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms.
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.
[repeated line] Leonard Shelby: I have this condition.
