The Unforgiving Minute Quotes

“Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You'll both be stronger as a result.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“Keep me in your heart and know that however great the distance, I am with you always.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“Your heart I take in mine. Whatever is in your heart shall be in mine, whatever is in mine shall be in yours. Our hearts shall be one, our minds shall be one. May God make us one.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. ”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“Perhaps the magnetic pull of West Point ultimately wasn’t rational but emotional. The history-laden rhythm of a military parade reverberated like the incense-scented rituals of Catholic mass. Walking around West Point, I was swept up in its call to “Duty, Honor, Country.” Self-sacrifice, integrity, and leadership echoed between the larger-than-life statues of Eisenhower and MacArthur. Cadets discussed courage and duty without a note of irony. They spoke without slouching, oozing confidence, projecting their chins, eyes fixed straight ahead. Around them my own spine stiffened with resolve. Whatever they had, I wanted. West Point offered more than an academic education. It offered an almost religious quest for perfection. I wanted to graduate a better man.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“What you know for certain is that it will be chaotic and loud, and you’ll be ready to piss in your boots. You’ll be more scared of letting down your men than anything the enemy’s gonna do to you. And then you’ll lead from instinct and judgment. That’s the price of a salute.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You’ll both be stronger as a result.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“Kierke- gaard said that life could only be understood by looking backward but that it had to be lived forward. Balanced between water and sky, I skimmed past the”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education