Reservists Activated Quotes & Sayings

Here is to the men we've had. Some were good, some were bad. Some will run, some will follow. But it is up to us if we spit or swallow — Hilary Storm

Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life. — Joe Sakic

The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart. — T. S. Eliot

But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past. — William Graham Sumner

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives — Abba Eban

To be punctual meant to exist as a point, meant that as well as to arrive somewhere on time. Constant existed as a point - could not imagine what it would, be like to exist in any other way. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre. — Simone Elkeles

Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. — Michael Bruce

When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union. — Sonny Perdue

Cynicism is popular because it stimulates the brain chemicals that make you feel good. It stimulates dopamine by making the world feel predictable. It triggers serotonin by making you feel superior to "the jerks." It triggers oxytocin by telling you who to trust. You pay a high price for these moments, unfortunately, because cynicism keeps you focused on problems instead of opportunities. — Loretta Graziano Breuning

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig