Deploying National Guard Quotes & Sayings

I always believed that If I'm not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I've been cheated by nature. — Annie Ali

Somewhere in the distance, the synchronic circles of our pasts had tripped a domino, and the steady whirr had grown till it now drowned with the roar of contingency — Craig Johnson

There are people who haven't faced the reality of what has gone on in Iraq. They still think that the old central state is going to be put back together again. It's not going to happen in Kurdistan. It's not going to happen in the south. It's not going to happen in Baghdad. — Peter W. Galbraith

we had pulled a bait and switch on the National Guard and Reserves - most men and women had joined the Guard in particular expecting to go to monthly training sessions and summer training camp, and to be called up for natural disasters or a national crisis; instead, they had become an operational force, deploying for a year or more to join an active and dangerous fight and potentially deploying more than once. — Robert M. Gates

I say, 'Why not' to everything. — Russell Westbrook

if this store of cosmic prana were inanimate, without a will and a direction of its own, we could very well flatter ourselves that every thought and fancy that we have is the product of our own volition. but since we are ourselves the products of this superintelligent cosmic power, it would be illogical to the last degree to presume that our individual ideas and fancies are exclusively our own creations and have no relationship to the ocean of which we are but a tiny drop. when it is once admitted that mind and consciousness are cosmic entities, it would then be ridiculous to suppose that the thoughts and ideas in an individual atom of this cosmic consciousness can have an entirely independent existence and not reflect the will and design of the cosmic whole. — Gopi Krishna

Time didn't pass; it tailgated. — Spider Robinson

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think ... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving ... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut. — John Bunyan

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions. — Wale

I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound. — Chet Faker

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession. — Rachel Billington

She ducked her head, studying his fingers, spreading them against her own, comparing their lengths. His hand dwarfed hers. — Elizabeth Hoyt