I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball h...is opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By act of Congress, male officers are gentlemen, but by act of God, we are ladies. We don't have to be little mini-men and try to ...be masculine and use obscene language to come across. I can take you and flip you on the floor and put your arms behind your back and you'll never move again, without your ever knowing that I can do it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bowl will ensnare and enchant men who crouch by the hearth... till they want but the riot of stars in the night; those who dwell far inland will seek ships.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as ...dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To deny the need for comprehensive child care policies is to deny a reality--that there's been a revolution in American life. Gran...dma doesn't live next door anymore, Mom doesn't work just because she'd like a few bucks for the sugar bowl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I ha...ve no pleasure in them"; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with the rain; in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly; when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets; before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, l...ike an armed warrior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broke...n at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our struggle is not against en...emies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »