Thanking A Veteran Quotes & Sayings

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. — Marya Hornbacher

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit. — Dwight Schultz

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it. — Max De Pree

The Garden of Eden was the place where the first human creatures might have acquired wisdom: Eden was the place for total intimacy with God, and that is the sole condition fur becoming wise. Day by day they might have grown in wisdom and stature, taking those strolls with God in 'the breezy time of day (Genesis 3:8). But they could not wait to get smart, so they chose the quick and dirty method... (pg. 149) — Ellen F. Davis

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from. — Terrence McNally

There is nothing more effective in igniting a man's desire than a woman's passion. To see the fire in your eyes, to feel the fire in your blood as you touch me, it sets me on fire too. Do you imagine I would prefer to kiss a woman who responds only with -- with compliance? No, I would not. No red-blooded man would. Never apologize for passion. Restraint, Julia, has no place in lovemaking. — Marguerite Kaye

What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth. — J. Vernon McGee

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting. — Katherine Paterson

And I was thinking just the opposite, Boots. Forever isn't going to be nearly long enough for us. — Jillian Dodd

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The pictures were beautiful both because of the way they looked while they existed and because they could never last. — Ally Condie

Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris. — Andre Leon Talley

The curious measure, of course, is that we fail to recognize the most obvious notion in all of this: that we ourselves are the best magicians we know. What our bodies do, what our minds accomplish, and the context we can give to things, how we make it all fit together, this is something. — Alberto Alvaro Rios

I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation! — Giacomo Puccini

If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk — Assata Shakur