Money Quote by John Dretschmer

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

— Sam Ewing

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Only the bones remain, Ring, and they pave the continent with the residue of sorrow, each death piling on the last in a tower…

— Terry Maggert

The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation,…

— David Gemmell

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without…

— Anne Bradstreet

“The dead were buried above ground, the loose soil heaped around them. The heavy rains of the monsoon months softened the mounds, so that…

— J.G. Ballard

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

— Horace

“In the glare, the great and terrible light of this happening, God seems to signal that the story of the rest of us need…

— Herman Wouk

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes…

— Vikram Seth