Desertion Punishment Quotes & Sayings

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced. — Danny Strong

There were letters on the bottom, letters he'd seen before, on the ship that had carried him from London, the ship that had broken up on the reef that guarded the island. The letters said: NEVER LAND.
Peter looked at it. And then he looked around him
at the lagoon; at the rock where the mermaids (Mermaids!) lounged; at the palm-fringed beach; at the tinkling fairy flitting over his head; at his new friends the Mollusks; at the jungle-covered, pirate-infested mountains looming over it all.
Then he looked at the board again, and he laughed out loud.
'That's exactly where I am,' he said. — Dave Barry

The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity. — Thomas Malthus

In other words, the capacity to exercise power is always a reflection of one's position in social relations. — James W. Messerschmidt

They gave each other a smile with a future in it. — Ring Lardner

To be conservative in politics is to take one's bearings not from the latest bright idea about how to make a better world, but by looking carefully at what the past reveals both about the kind of people we are and the problems that concern us. As we get older, we often become conservative in our habits, in our family practices, and in our recognition of the richness of our civilization, but this evolution of our character into a set of habits in no way blocks adventurousness. The old no less than the young may be found starting new enterprises, sailing around the world, and solving arcane academic questions. But it is in the ordinary business of life that we find our excitement, not in foolish collective dreams of political perfection. — Kenneth Minogue

If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady! — James Merrick

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives. — Barack Obama

I personally like to do independent films. — Famke Janssen