Harold Feinstein Quotes

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.

Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

I was on the lucky side of life.

When I was 18, I went into the army as a payroll clerk because otherwise I was headed for Korea.

At 19, I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.