James Jones Quotes
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours
The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.
In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.
The little bit you and me might change the world, " Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it.""But it'd be there.
He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.
...the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.
If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be yours
Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.
It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.
The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.
All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.
