Senior Enlisted Quotes & Sayings

Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts? ... I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them. — Augustine Of Hippo

The Marine Corps assumes maximum ignorance from its enlisted folks. It assumes that no one taught you anything about physical fitness, personal hygiene, or personal finances. I took mandatory classes about balancing a checkbook, saving, and investing. When I came home from boot camp with my fifteen-hundred-dollar earnings deposited in a mediocre regional bank, a senior enlisted marine drove me to Navy Federal - a respected credit union - and had me open an account. When I caught strep throat and tried to tough it out, my commanding officer noticed and ordered me to the doctor. We — J.D. Vance

When you are kind and loving the world will become kind, generous, and loving. — Debasish Mridha

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) . — Arvind Ethan David

Forthwith I crush this acid lemon
Freeing myself of the malefic venom
Hither I let thee rotten
Let my curse be forgotten. — Camilla Isley

[ ... ]when he closed his eyes, the torrent of longing waiting inside was so thick he thought he might drown in it. — Aimee Bender

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. — Antonio Porchia

I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better. — Halle Berry

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease. — Brandon Sanderson

We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God. — Therese Of Lisieux

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology. — Maddie Hasson

arrogance and ignorance. Yet we were allowed through. The five months we were underway gave us memories, sights, and feelings that no encounter I can conjure ever could. I am humbled and blessed and forever I'll carry with me the blessings that were heaped upon me, upon us, during our transit of the Northwest Passage that summer of 2009. — Sprague Theobald

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents. — Leon Panetta

We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general. — Sunday Adelaja

You put your dick in my lunch? — Christopher Moore

This Nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourish'd two Locks, which graceful hung behind 20 In equal curls, and well conspir'd to deck With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck. — Alexander Pope