קאווע שטיבל

One of the bravest men I saw in the African campaign was on a telegraph pole in the midst of furious fire while we were moving toward Tunis. I stopped and asked him what the hell he was doing up there. He answered, 'Fixing the wire, sir.' 'Isn't it a little unhealthy up there right now?' I asked. 'Yes sir, but this goddamn wire has got to be fixed.' I asked, 'Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?' And he answered, 'No sir, but you sure as hell do.'

When the priest at his deathbead said, "May the Lord have mercy on your soul", Chaplin replied: "Why not? It belongs to him."

We have a system of justice in this country that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent.

-Bryan Stevenson

God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the
sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look
around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly
couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to
think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and
look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
I will go to heaven now.

Damn it Sir, I can’t fight a shadow. Without Your cooperation from a weather standpoint I am deprived of an accurate disposition of the German armies and how in hell can I be intelligent in my attack? All this probably sounds unreasonable to You, but I have lost all patience with Your chaplains who insist that this is a typical Ardennes winter, and that I must have faith.



Faith and patience be damned! You have just got to make up Your mind whose side You’re on. You must come to my assistance, so that I may dispatch the entire German Army as a birthday present to Your Prince of Peace.



Sir, I have never been an unreasonable man; I am not going to ask You for the impossible. I do not even insist on a miracle, for all I request is four days of clear weather.



Give me four clear days so that my planes can fly, so that my fighter-bombers can bomb and strafe, so that my reconnaissance may pick out targets for my magnificent artillery. Give me four days of sunshine to dry this blasted mud, so that my tanks may roll, so that ammunition and rations may be taken to my hungry, ill-equipped infantry. I need these four days to send von Rundstedt and his godless army to their Valhalla. I am sick of this unnecessary butchery of American youth, and in exchange for four days of fighting weather, I will deliver You enough Krauts to keep your bookkeepers months behind in their work. Amen”

Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

ליפא האט געשריבן:

Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

Mussolini

חיים נחמן ביאליק האט געשריבן:לֹא-אֶמְכֹּר בְּכֹרָתִי בִּנְזִיד עֲדָשִׁים;
בִּתְרוּעַת הַשֶּׁקֶר קוֹלִי לֹא יִתְבּוֹלֵל,
מִהְיוֹת כְּפִיר בֵּין כְּפִירִים אֶסָּפֶה עִם-כְּבָשִׂים.
לֹא חוֹנַנְתִּי בִּמְתַלְעוֹת וּבְצִפָּרְנַיִם –
כָּל-כֹּחִי לֵאלֹהִים, וֵאלֹהִים – חַיִּים!