Singletons Obituaries Quotes & Sayings

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security. — Ludwig Quidde

What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong! — Douglas Adams

The devil does not have a fork Brianna, he has a whip — Michael Grant

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Better never means better for everyone ... It always means worse, for some. — Margaret Atwood

I don't have any desire to be better known. — Lindsay Duncan

It is better to be patient than proud. — Lailah Gifty Akita

At one point, the entire wagon train came to a halt when the soldiers and officers on horseback fell asleep in their saddles.
Few words were spoken between the boys on the journey; their thoughts were filled with the voices of those around them. The wounded men sang a song of sorrow to the rhythm of the rain. It was a never-ending song, for when one man died there was another who took his place in the chorus of the suffering. The song served as a cadence for the five thousand who marched by their side.
(The Confederate retreat from Gettysburg. July 4, 1863)
Excerpt From: Sheila W. Slavich. "Jumpin' the Rails!." XlibrisUS, 2016-03-16T04:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. — Herbert A. Simon

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. — Alan Moore