Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.
Robert A. Cook
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki... A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS The next day I was driven down to New York City to take the physical. It was one of the strangest th... JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. He got a little tired and started getting the ball up, but he was pretty much untouched. DAVE ROY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE [The prosecution asked the jury for a sentence of four to six years.] I cannot think of another inci... CHRIS GRAVELINE Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It was a suicide attack. The person was wearing an army uniform and was on a motorbike which he ramm... ZAHIR AZIMI Army reports and Army information, where the Army was looking into allegations and sorting out the s... PAUL BOYCE Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been... MARILLYN HEWSON I lost a lot of friends at the hands of the British Army. The person who actually introduced me to m... MARTIN MCGUINNESS i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights moveme... JAMES EARL JONES A dead war horse is the single most expensive corpse you’ll ever see. CHRISTIAN CAMERON I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high ho... SENATOR JOHN KERRY I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he hel... ED ROYCE The simplest way to better the world is one good deed at a time. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide
another, that he may retire the so... ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") We make war that we may live in peace. ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO Status quos are made to be broken. RAY A. DAVIS The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army... ERIC SHINSEKI My horse was getting a little bit tired. They quickened at the half-mile pole and it looked like may... GARRETT GOMEZ If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Some sales movement has started. We have been able to restore chicken in the army canteens. BHARAT TANDON After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the ... AUNG SAN SUU KYI My horse just got a little tired down the stretch. BRIAN SEARS Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON When I went into the Army, I made up my mind that I was putting myself at the Army's disposal. I bel... IRWIN SHAW I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran h... ELI WALLACH The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the... H.L. MENCKEN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING My horse was getting a little bit tired. I was really asking him going to the quarter pole, but Alex... GARRETT GOMEZ He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS Aren't you just a knight in shining armor? ... Wherever do you keep your horse? And who scoops up th... MYRA MCENTIRE I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn. LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with infor... MIKE POMPEO Oh... that darn horse. Is he going to be on the field? I ought to make Bobby ride him. Well, when I ... JOE PATERNO When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II... AL PACINO I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, w... COLIN POWELL The secret of getting ahead is getting started. MARK TWAIN I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now. GEORG RAUCH in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a... JOHN EISENHOWER While I was filming 'Kong' - and I don't play a very capable Army Ranger in 'Kong... COREY HAWKINS They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an a... ROMAN PAYNE When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian pe... SERGEI LAVROV She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both real... TIA MOWRY The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. For example, the fact that you can put Navy personnel in an Air Force facility, exploiting informati... CHRISTOPHER JACKSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a s... KRISTANNA LOKEN There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one ... DONALD DAVIDSON We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid.... ~DOCTOR WHO The world is more than the sum of its suffering. DEEPAK CHOPRA He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER The Army game was just a difficult game to play. It was a consolation game with just flies in the bu... DON CAHOON People say "Iraq had the fourth largest army in the world". Yeah, maybe, but you know what, after th... BILL HICKS The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j... STEVEN MOFFAT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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HEINLEIN If you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. and, if you sha... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Since when was an emotional argument won by logic? ROBERT A. HEINLEIN In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a de... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later tha... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Though no one notices at the time, in-loveness obliterates the humanity of the beloved. One does a c... ROBERT A. JOHNSON The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has even... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not ins... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government o... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again! ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man b... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most am... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to se... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. The... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundam... ROBERT A. NISBET In a highly popular statement, we are told that the family has progressed from institution to compan... ROBERT A. NISBET