Veterans Day Appreciation Quotes & Sayings

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. — David Platt

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning ... I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it. — Marie Dressler

Man, I look ugly when I cry. — Debra Anastasia

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music ... the art ... whatever ... And I kind of went with that. — Lenny Kravitz

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie. — Chuck Palahniuk

Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while you are hearing the tale. — Matthew Kirby

I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind. — Krishna Das

It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained. — Pliny The Elder

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools? — Haile Selassie

The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!"
~ Richard Curtis ~ — Richard Curtis

The wolf turned to Rachel. She was afraid to run, afraid fleeing would make it chase her. Somewhere in the stored files of her mind, she remembered one should not look directly at a menacing dog, but she couldn't take her eyes from it. — G.G. Collins

Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.
And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life. — Savitri Devi

There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope. — Zoketsu Norman Fischer