“In the U. S. Army, you are cut down for being honest.”
Bowe Bergdahl (1986) American soldier captured by the Taliban in 2009 and released in 2014 as part of a prisoner swap
Last e-mail to parents (2009)
The Wide Window (2000)
“In the U. S. Army, you are cut down for being honest.”
Bowe Bergdahl (1986) American soldier captured by the Taliban in 2009 and released in 2014 as part of a prisoner swap
Last e-mail to parents (2009)
“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Interlude “Locke Stays for Dinner” section 1 (p. 121)
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
Carl Rowan (1925–2000) American journalist
Inside Washington, March 6, 1993.
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?"
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
A Poet's Advice (1958)
Context: Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel …
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.”
Rebecca Stead book When You Reach Me
Source: When You Reach Me
“Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be”
Paulo Coelho book The Zahir
Variant: Stop being who you were and become who you are.
Source: The Zahir (2005), p. 215.
“The three "F"s of being a werewolf, Feeding, Fighting, and… Reproduction”
Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer