31 Quotes by Robert M. Edsel

It was typical George Stout: detailed, timely, and understated. Here was a man that was never hurried. Who was careful. Punctual. Precise. An expert and a precisionist makes his analysis first, he always said, then his decision.

Colonel George A. Taylor rallied survivors with a cry, 'Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here.

Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.

Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn’t said this is important, it’s going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

There’s one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.

We must guard jealously all we have inherited from a long past, all we are capable of creating in a trying present, and all we are determined to preserve in a foreseeable future. Art.

An expert and a precisionist makes his analysis first, he always said, then his decision.3.

We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.

But was art worth a life, Taper wanted to know. Like all Monuments Men, it was a question that haunted him. “I had that choice,” Leonard said. “I chose to remove the bombs. It was worth the reward.” “What reward?” “When I finished, I got to sit in Chartres Cathedral, the cathedral I had helped save, for almost an hour. Alone.