Salute The Troops Quotes & Sayings

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation. — Aristotle.

Beware of Destination Addiction ... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are. — Robert Holden

Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal. — Mahatma Gandhi

A bitch. No prostitute. A bitch. If you were a Russian you would understand. — Erich Maria Remarque

We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it. Master Kai — Eleni Papanou

Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world. — Barack Obama

Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out. — Vaclav Smil

One must keep a store of common sense," said Tchitchikov, "and consult one's common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it. — Nikolai Gogol

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal. — Michael Novak

there is a use-by date for everything, a statute of limitations on grief. I wish the custom of wearing a black armband could be reinstated to signal fragility and a need for gentle treatment. We are all in too much of a hurry now to move on, to demonstrate a resilience we may not feel. I long for the unspoken subtleties of the Victorian mourning code with its spectrum of colours from ebony to crimson, indicating various stages of recovery.
Pg 360 — Caroline Baum

Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox. — Angela Kinsey

She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience. — Judi Fennell

I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me — Charlotte Bronte

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance. — Paul Saffo

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future. — Robert Grudin