Vielas Molmasa Quotes & Sayings

Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The United States Army enlists young men at seventeen; the average age of the Vietnam combat soldier was nineteen. In many other countries boys are conscripted for military service while barely in their teens. Similarly, the period of highest risk for rape is in late adolescence. Half of all victims are aged twenty or younger at the time they are raped; three-quarters are between the ages of thirteen and twenty-six. The period of greatest psychological vulnerability is also in reality the period of greatest traumatic exposure, for both young men and young women. Rape and combat might thus be considered complementary social rites of initiation into the coercive violence at the foundation of adult society. They are the paradigmatic forms of trauma for women and men. — Judith Lewis Herman

She sat in the silence that resulted in the absence of her words, feeling unburdened but not absolved. — Thomm Quackenbush

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48) — Victoria Moran

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. — Billy Graham

like a small room. Like a — Michael Connelly

As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to write songs from this time of the day to this time of the day." Almost treat it like a real job. I can't do that. I've never been able to write songs like that. You never know when something creative is going to hit you, or emotion or whatever. You can take it, and turn it into something that makes somebody feel something. I love that about my job. — Kenny Chesney

The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise. — Ferdinand Foch

As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people. — Iqbal Sacranie

Be careful that you don't give charitable gifts before men to be seen by them, otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — Frederick Hoehn

She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe. — Curtis Sittenfeld