"Perhaps it was only that when you try……" — Michael Shaara
"Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it."
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11 Quotes by Michael Shaara
Michael Shaara has 11 quotes on this site.
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It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.
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A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when…
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Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so…
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Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and…
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There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.
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Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?
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The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other…
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I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir,…
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If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere,…
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Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.
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More Cannot Express Quotes
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence…
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Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears,…
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No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel…
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical…
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Whenever I hear a man or women express hatred for any race, I wonder just what it is in themselves…
— Thomas Dreier
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Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love
— Hector Berlioz
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I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
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Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we…
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There are ideas in our hearts, there are wishes, there are aspirations, there are groanings, there are sighings that the…
— David Lloyd-Jones
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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
— Pericles
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