Short Veterans Quotes & Sayings

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left. — Sid Vicious

For people who grew up hunting, especially war veterans, shooting often settled the mind. It was something that required full concentration, and therefore took you away from your troubles, at least for a short time. — Taya Kyle

When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered the things I have, I forgot I lost anything at all. — Jenna Alatari

Preparation clears a pathway for success. — Ron Kaufman

It amazes me how little common curtesy people can show when their tested. — Justin R. Durban

The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing
if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration. — Corrine Brown

Not my will, but my heart's will. — Alcoholics Anonymous

The second factor helping to bring the dissociative disorders back into the mainstream was the Vietnam War. For sociological reasons originating outside psychology and psychiatry, the Vietnam War and the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that arose from it were not forgotten when the veterans returned home, as had been the case in the two world wars and the Korean War. The realization that real, severe trauma could have serious long-term psychopathological consequences was forced on society as a whole by Vietnam. Once this principle was accepted, it as a short leap to the conclusion that severe childhood trauma might have serious sequelae lasting into adulthood. — Colin A. Ross

If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. — Henry Ward Beecher

It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams ... and understand the heartbeat of the country. — George H. W. Bush

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words. — David Levithan

It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to make him fight on behalf of his rulers, the rich and powerful who are too cunning to fight their own battles-in short to defend not himself but people whom he's never met and moreover would not care to be in the same room with him-you have to condition him into loving violence not for the benefits it bestows on him but for its own sake. Result: the society has to defend itself from its defenders, because what's admirable in wartime is termed psychopathic in peace. It's easier to wreck a man than to repair him. Ask any psychotherapist. And take a look at the crime figures among veterans. — John Brunner

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens. — Timothy Keller