Dan Groat

The weak thrive on indulgence.

We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.

Now, it__ time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that__ gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin_ a lie to his son from his death bed. What__ the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?

In this country our principles should not be silent.

True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.

Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.

Those who show no loyalty give up the right to expect any.

Winning and losing was suddenly elevated to be about things that had no score and no teams and no uniforms; just one player at a time dealing with his life, his own struggle, his own triumph and torment.

My name Quan. Quan Nguyen. This Kim-Ly, wife. We next door. Do nails. We with Mr. Blaylock. He fight, we fight. We come here from Viet Nam. This good country, but sometimes, good people in good country have to fight.

A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature__ demolition team comes in.

As I have aged, I__e been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.

Gifford Ulrich didn__ know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn__ sleep in alleys.

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

If you decide to take somebody on, don__ look behind you, because there won__ be anybody there. You__l be all alone.

Surviving is about need. Living is about want.

He had no ability to give up. It wasn__ that he didn__ want to quit, he couldn__. It wasn__ in him. It never had been.

My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.

It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.