Quotes About Experience

While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger.

Via?a era vaporul din port, care nu mergea spre infinit...

Wunderbar war das beim Trinken - es brachte einen rasch zusammen-, aber zwischenn Abend und Morgen schaffte es auch wieder Zwischenräume, als wären es Jahre.

And yes, that's it, that is what they think, those hundred thousand Kantoreks. Young men of iron. Young? None of us is more than twenty. But young? Young men? That was a long time ago. We are old now.

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by war.

We are burnt up by hard facts; like tradesmen we understand distinctions, and like butchers, necessities. We are no longer untroubled-- we are indifferent. We might exist there; but should we really live there? We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial-- I believe we are lost.

Through the years our business has been killing;—it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death.

To-day we would pass through the scenes of our youth like travelers. We are burnt up by hard facts; like tradesmen we understand distinctions, and like butchers, necessities. We are no longer untroubled- we are indifferent. We might exist there; but should we really live there?

Tinere?ea trebuie s?-?i tr?iasc? prim?vara vie?ii.

a real physician almost never seeks another doctor's help. For they all are painfully aware of just how little anybody understands about curing the sick.

It scarcely made a column of newspaper space, but it wrote headlines in their lives.

You don't necessarily need to travel to be educated. …You learn a bit in school, a lot from books, and even more from life. …And from the stories of those who have traveled!

Parce qu'il est plus facile de se cacher derrière une vie de quarante ans que derrière une de vingt.

But one thing was quite clear.... [Sol Bloom, chief of the Midway] wrote. [B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.

B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.

No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burlap.

It had swept him, he said, "into a dream from which I did not recover for months.

The men lived for the moment the boat ascended to the surface and the hatch in the conning tower was opened. "The first breath of fresh air, the open conning-tower hatch and the springing into life of the Diesels, after fifteen hours on the bottom, is an experience to be lived through," said another commander, Martin Niemöller.

I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

As the opposite of death is life, I think I shall get seduced by Rupert tomorrow. . . Well, that's done and I'm glad it's over! If that's really all there is to it I'd rather have a good smoke or go to the pictures.

They tasted a new snack called Cracker Jack and a new breakfast food called Shredded Wheat.

Five months after the disaster, Charles Lauriat wrote a book about his experience, entitled The Lusitania's Last Voyage

Mackworth turned to Conner and said, "I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair." "So did I," Conner replied, "but I've learnt a devil of a lot in the last five minutes.