Militaries That Accept Quotes & Sayings

Blind wantons like the gulls who scream
And rip the edge off any ideal or dream. — Louis MacNeice

First of all, there is no need to patronize me by implying that I'm Helen of Troy when it's clear that I'm no beauty. — Lisa Kleypas

People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions. — Scott Young

I love him Ginny ... and in love, there is no fear. — Iza Calzado

As well as the [League of Nations] delegates themselves and their suites, there were innumerable campaigners of one sort and another, male and female, clerical and lay, young and old; all with some notion to publicise, some pet solution to offer, some organisation to promote. They gathered in droves, fanning out through the city, and settling in hotels and pensions, from the Lakeside ones down to tiny obscure back-street establishments. Ferocious ladies with moustaches, clergymen with black leather patches on the elbows of their jackets or cassocks and smelling of tobacco smoke, mad admirals who knew where to find the lost tribes of Israel, and scarcely saner generals who deduced prophetic warnings from the measurement of the pyramids; but one and all believers in the League's historic role to deliver mankind painlessly and inexpensively from the curse of war to the great advantage of all concerned. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.' — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Such is my curse, Branwyn O'Tyre. Every woman I touch is forced to lavish her affections upon me. — Jo Grafford

I've seen in the alleyway near the front entrance; the one with the glowing yellow eyes. — Jessica Sorensen

We are justified in feeling threatened by the unlimited expansion of industry, and we are justified in fearing that our interests are secondary to corporate interests. But refusal of vaccination undermines a system that is not actually typical of capitalism. It is a system in which both the burdens and the benefits are shared across the entire population. Vaccination allows us to use the products of capitalism for purposes that are counter to the pressures of capital. — Eula Biss