Humvee Quotes & Sayings

It was "Boom Boom" Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a fiery wall that consumed the five men inside. — Siobhan Fallon

I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. — Charles Dickens

She and Harry may be the most loyal, least religious people in the community, but there are times when people need religion more than they need anything else - even people like Zahra and Harry. — Octavia E. Butler

Ministers should be the most political of animals because, in contrast to much of what passes as politics in our time, those in the ministry cannot help but be about the formation of a people who can know they need one another to survive. To ask those in the ministry to take seriously your political responsibilities may well entail a radical reorientation of what those in the ministry do. That is particularly true if you believe as I do that we are living at the end of Christendom. Recovering — Stanley Hauerwas

Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame. — Ice Cube

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. — Johann Most

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology. — David Novak

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe. — Larry Eisenberg

Because it protects you. And when I jumped from the Humvee, I believed it would save me, too, in the same way you believe it will always save you."
"No, I don't," Thibault began.
"Then why, my friend, do you still carry it with you? — Nicholas Sparks

You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas — David Crockett

It must be that evil had its own attractions, just as goodness did. Vance — Lisa Kleypas

Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another. — Roy Lessin

God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to! — Martin Buber

Instead of waiting for the time to get started to simply appear one day, we need to be intentional with scheduling it. — Lysa TerKeurst

In fact, it's almost big enough to cross time zones. The lab is amidships and takes up nearly half the available space. In front of it and behind it there are weapons stations where two gunners can stand back to back and look out to either side of the vehicle through slit windows like the embrasures in a medieval castle. Each of these stations can be sealed off from the lab by a bulkhead door. Further aft, there's something like an engine room. Forward, there are crew quarters, with a dozen wall-mounted cot beds and two chemical toilets, the kitchen space, and then the cockpit, which has a pedestal gun of the same calibre as the Humvee's and about as many controls as a passenger jet. Justineau — M.R. Carey

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. — Thomas Paine

I always say that I'm a clean athlete and that I should be randomly tested anytime, urine and blood. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.