Army Competencies Quotes & Sayings

Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine. You need a desk. I've often noticed how much you like to write. The way you eat up those advertising tablets from the store! I never saw anything like it. I can't understand it though. I never write anything but checks myself. "
"Bob!" said Mrs. Ray. "You wrote the most wonderful letters to me before we were married. I still have them, a big bundle of them. Every time I clean house I read them over and cry."
"Cry, eh?" said Mr. Ray, grinning. "In spite of what your mother says, Betsy, if you have any talent for writing, it comes from family. Her brother Keith was mighty talented, and maybe you are too. Maybe you're going to be a writer."
Betsy was silent, agreeably abashed.
"But if you're going to be a writer," he went on, "you've got to read. Good books. Great books. The classics. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Lloyd felt as though he had just lost the woman he loved more than everyone else on earth — Catrin Collier

You get up one day and somebody has taken one of the mountains away — Simon Armitage

Fruit ... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!" — Dylan Moran

No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle — Ayn Rand

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist. — Talib Kweli

Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country from being flooded with millions of illegal immigrants? These are important questions on the mind of middle class voters all over America. — George Noory

Because in the end, isn't that what matters? That we're still here. And although the ride might get bumpy at times, the view is still so beautiful. — Kylie Jude

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended. — Michael Michele

Commitment to great causes makes great men. — Billy Graham