Quotes

[kafdog]

Just after I signed on the dotted line, leaning up on a pool table arms folded:

Female Sgt: hi there, how are you today?
Me: real good thanks
Female Sgt: so have you taken the plunge and signed up?
Me: yes
Female Sgt (moving in real close): you’re in the army now sonny and if I ever catch you folding your arms again I will rip them off and hit you with the soggy ends! (she smiled and walked away)

During basic training: after a particular hard beasting (PT session)
Sgt: and what the f*ck is wrong with you?
Me: I am in pain!
Sgt: PAIN! PAIN......you know what pain is???? Pain is the army’s way of encouraging you to move faster so you finish earlier!

 

[Mockingbird13]

I just had a chat with the Big Guy upstairs and said, now listen... I know you are only supposed to give me what I can handle - well Im there....

Most of the times he listens - and other times he makes me test myself and I realize I was stronger than I thought !

 

[Redheaded Stranger]

Mockingbird13, your post reminded me of this quote:

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
Mother Teresa

 

[diggin]

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is. ~Lenny Bruce

If you do nothing, you get nothing. ~Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

 

[Redheaded Stranger]

I think the quote on Criminal Minds tonight was appropriate for this forum.

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
Sally Kepton (sp?)

 

[Redheaded Stranger]

Sue, these are for you and Joe. Go get 'em!! We're right there with you and will help in any way we can.

Red

"You're never beaten until you admit it."
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
Margaret Thatcher

 

[BV101]

Your tea is in the bin.

My other half. Used several times.

 

[Ned]

We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

 

[wife of]

whats that one about evil occuring when good men see wrong doing and stand by and do nothing??? someone google it for me please could do with tagging it onto some of my mails just now....cheers,,

 

[Ned]

whats that one about evil occuring when good men see wrong doing and stand by and do nothing??? someone google it for me please could do with tagging it onto some of my mails just now....cheers,,

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing", you can attribute this either to Tolstoy (War and Peace), or, although the academics squabble about this, Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher writing at the time of the American and French Revolutions.
Certainly sounds like Burke, but Tolstoy's got the copyright! Here endeth todays lesson.............

P.S. This one was one of my 'reminders' throughout Bosnia.........

 

[Wagon]

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend, inside a dog, it's too dark to read."

"Go, and never darken my towels again."

Groucho Marx

 

[wife of]

Thanks Ned,will go with tolstoy the irish are a touchy subject round here...