Roald Dahl Quotes

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

There will always be criticism, but I remained calm and relaxed.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.

He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he’d watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.

I think war is a dangerous place.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

No more hellfires and please no more gunfire.

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.

We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you get it over with, the sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.

If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.

Being patient ... and not becoming too stressed out over the big plays, those are the things to remember.

A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

What can't be helped must be endured.