2200 Military Quotes & Sayings

If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good. — Mary McCarthy

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. — Eric Clapton

No matter how talented you think you are there is always someone better. You can learn from them and hone your skills, or challenge them and reveal your weakness. You get farther in life if you know when to stay in your lane. Try to out run a master in pursuit of success, and you will remain a slave bound by failure. — Carlos Wallace

He was the hardest person to figure out I had ever met, which was saying something. I knew girls, after all.... — Chris O'Guinn

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps. — Jeremy Spencer

I went into the lunchroom. A stocky young girl in a soiled green jumper sat at a table reading a fan magazine. She got up slowly when the screen door creaked. She had enormous breasts and she looked like Buddy Hackett. — John D. MacDonald

At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South and North shall come;When the sinner is dismayed,And the just man is afraid,Then Heaven be thy aid,Poor Tom. — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. — Thomas Fuller

The psalmist says "I have set the LORD always before me." Paul says, "We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." They speak to the need for our souls to be completely and thoroughly with God. But as both of these verses suggest, it does not happen automatically. "Set" and "take captive" are active verbs, implying that you have a role in determining where your soul rests. — John Ortberg

I've never known anyone who was saved who did not first save herself. — Wendy Wunder

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. — Jacques Delille

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After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort. — Harriet Van Horne

The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan