Red Alert Conscript Quotes & Sayings

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. — Richard Baxter

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. — China Mieville

When I'm dead who cares? I don't ... — Freddie Mercury

Ocean's remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants a potent dose of grounded inspiration. — Van Jones

A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle. — Garry Wills

To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again ... books which I have read carefully a few years before. I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it. — Michel De Montaigne

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential - I was torn between the two. — Karen Joy Fowler

[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope. — Thomas Jefferson

The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us. — Edward Snowden

Reason is neutral. It has no biases. It has no agendas. There are no personal interests at stake. Reason simply says, "Here is the data, be responsible with it." As such, reason is impartial. — Michael Vito Tosto

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states. — Charles Dickens

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about. — Tibor Fischer

The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure and positive. — Jeanette Coron

Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education. — Nicky Gumbel