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Related There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the mi... PHIL KLAY The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My... KEVIN POWERS I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country... SMEDLEY BUTLER My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea. DARRELL ISSA Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen WILLIAM HENRY The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could... WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON In a corporatocracy such as in which we live, there is no difference between the idle rich, those th... CAMILLO MAC BICA I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's ... SMEDLEY D. BUTLER You know all that money we spend on the military ever year -- trillions of dollars? Instead, if we u... BILL HICKS The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN In the Marine Corps, you meet this really broad segment of the country; you're working with peop... PHIL KLAY As a result of this flight, the military remained in Yuma. Today the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma a... JAMES STOVER We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine ... J. D. VANCE Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood ABRAHAM LINCOLN My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the va... JAMES COSTOS My hobby was the military. I had been reading military history, especially as it relates to the Civi... MARC RAMSEY The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. LOUIS SIMPSON Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all t... ADAM DRIVER Military men are the scourges of the world GUY DE MAUPASSANT It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the ... JEROME WEISNER I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I serv... ADAM DRIVER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medi... TULSI GABBARD Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recom... THOMAS S. MONSON My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military. DAVID GREGORY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE I have a lot of family members that served in the American military. I did not serve; I filled out t... ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in... LEON ASKIN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister... JULIANNE MOORE During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in... AL FRANKEN What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect... JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ... JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,”... JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will gran... JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma... JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�... JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you... JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ... JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (... JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone. JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima JOHN GREEN But it's your life. JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ... JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace. JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and... JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt. JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ... JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries.. JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu... JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<... JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y... JOHN GREEN I think a great idea would be involving our various military services along the border all the way f... BOBBY KNIGHT One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined... JOHN GLENN I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in... HARRISON FORD In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. RALPH PETERS The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail HYMAN GEORGE RICKOVER I was the first in my family to graduate college. DUKE JOHNSON There's a tendency to look at anybody who joined the military as if they underwrote everything t... PHIL KLAY I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Those who worry stumble long The Way. Those who pray have no time to stray. ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States s... HERMANN EILTS I was an original Aberdeen kid, ... My father came here in 1937. I left in 1950, moved to New York, ... DANIEL CHANDLER God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN Qinghua was first established as a preparatory school in 1911. In 1928, it became a university. In 1... CHEN-NING YANG Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S. Grant in full military reg... MARK TWAIN The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to anc... KIM EDWARDS I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my famil... BRIAN BLESSED The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, ... STUART HADDON 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 I have 30 years of military service, having served in combat. BILL WELCH I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important dec... AARON CIECHANOVER That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I do... MITCH HEDBERG On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union. LEON JOUHAUX As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who ser... OLIVER NORTH No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER
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TAMMY BALDWIN Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is... TAMMY BALDWIN I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who ... TAMMY BALDWIN All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... becaus... TAMMY BALDWIN Sometimes I wish I weren't famous. TAMMY WYNETTE Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - a... TAMMY BRUCE In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the de... TAMMY BRUCE How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and... TAMMY BRUCE I am not a typical human being. I am me and don't try to be anything but that because God didn't giv... TAMMY WOOSTER That was my Norwegian grandmother's. TAMMY HARTY'S the original country music diva. TAMMY WYNETTE It's something that was a part of my growing up and my childhood, ... I loved the hall. TAMMY WYNETTE Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today. Me and Little Joe will be going away. I love you both and thi... TAMMY WYNETTE Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. TAMMY WYNETTE I flipped open my Nextel, went to Shane's number, dialed it, and Shane said, 'Hello?' TAMMY TOWNSEND It'll be interesting to see what happens in the next 24 to 48 hours. I think it'll be a big decision... TAMMY PETERS He fell on the triple axel and he missed a spin when he slipped - which he normally never does. Thos... TAMMY GAMBILL We literally stopped at 25 or more hotels and motels on the way up and couldn't find one room, ... W... TAMMY TOWNSEND We got out of New Orleans about 9:30 Saturday morning on a wing and a prayer. We had no plans other ... TAMMY TOWNSEND The next two days, gas prices went nuts. TAMMY BEARD And we're gonna put the pen in the box, and she loved lavender roses so we can put a rose petal in h... TAMMY KUBO I went to my car in the morning and it was on my windshield wiper with a nice note. He heard and wan... TAMMY KUBO We'd always be in the kitchen; it was a Saturday morning thing, just sitting there with a big bushel... TAMMY MOORE Your mind is your battleship through the storm of life's hardship where you can either lose control ... TAMMY MARTELL It's neat seeing the continuum of care. I'll pick someone up in the ambulance, then see them at the ... TAMMY SNOW I didn't think I would win. I'm excited. I don't know what to say. This has been a dream come true. ... TAMMY WOODS I wasn't really sure when the other keys weren't turning. But when mine turned, I was real, real hap... TAMMY WOODS I was pleased with our hitting today. I felt like that, with that amount of hits from us, and if our... TAMMY OLSON Brain dead. The brain and the body weren't working [together], and nothing was firing. I was very di... TAMMY OLSON CMA established the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961, and it is truly our format's ultimate honor.... TAMMY GENOVESE It's $50 for a booth and they're still taking booths. TAMMY HUTCHESON We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment. TAMMY SMITH Everybody is just really appalled that an 8-year-old would be labeled, even if it's not going in his... TAMMY BARTH We've been welcomed by the old customers and we're welcoming lots of new customers. They like the ch... TAMMY MCINTYRE Sam was throwing fastballs up in the zone, so they were hitting fastballs all over the place. TAMMY OLSON You would be surprised at how quick a baby will crawl toward a photo of [his/her] mother. TAMMY ANDERSON It is going to be a really warm, cozy, home atmosphere. TAMMY ANDERSON