Demobilised Quotes & Sayings

Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage. — Ronald Reagan

I understand culture. I am the nucleus. — Kanye West

My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass. — Andrew Marvell

I have no problem with starting from scratch. — Leif Garrett

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. — James Patterson

She must face the forest of her mother's past in order to save herself and the one she loves. — Carrie Ryan

So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay. — John Green

Many historians have noted an interesting phenomenon in American life in the years immediately after a war. In the councils of government fierce partisanship replaces the necessary political coalitions of wartime. IN the great arena of social relations -- business, labour, the community -- violence rises, fear and recrimination dominate public discussion, passion prevails over reason. Many historians have noted this phenomenon. It is attributed to the continuance beyond the end of the war of the war hysteria. Unfortunately, the necessary emotional fever for fighting a war cannot be turned off like a water tap. Enemies must continue to be found. The mind and heart cannot be demobilised as quickly as the platoon. On the contrary, like a fiery furnace at white heat, it takes a considerable time to cool. — E.L. Doctorow

Nothing is more conservative than conservation — Russell Kirk

Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along. — Rush Limbaugh

The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine. — William Irwin Thompson

The world exists for the education of each man. There is no age or state of society, or mode of action in history, to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life. Everything tends in a most wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him. He should see that he can live all history in his own person. He must sit at home with might and main, and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the governments of the world . . . — Paul Scott

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would be that indefinable something that sent hungry hearts roving, longing and searching for something, they knew not what, and yet could not give up the quest. — Cassandra Clare

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted. — Robert Henri

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist. — Ronald Knox

What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. — Ann McLane Kuster