Combat Deployment Quotes

#1. When we deployed, in our heads, the towel we left hanging next to the shower to dry, would still be hanging there when we got back. Well, it won't be. If it is, some important questions need to be asked.

Adam Fenner

#2. Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary ...

Michael Wilbon

#3. Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation ... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.

C. Everett Koop

#4. In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

Susan Orlean

#5. Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Do you understand? Why we're here? This is not your heaven. It's mine.

Mitch Albom

#7. Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

John Archibald Wheeler

#9. If one's husband had been married before and widowed - a fairly common condition - and a close relative of his first wife's died, the second wife was expected to engage in "complementary mourning" - a kind of proxy mourning on behalf of the deceased earlier partner.

Bill Bryson

#10. I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

Emily Watson

#11. Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.

Humairaa Anseline

#12. She spent all his combat pay before he got back, and she was five months pregnant, which, for a Marine coming back from a seven-month deployment, is not pregnant enough.

Phil Klay

#13. The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.

David Mitchell

#14. To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!

Robert Burns

#15. 'Shortly Thereafter' chronicles all the aspects of an Afghanistan deployment, from the terrors of the unknown that await before leaving, to the perverse thrills and adrenaline rushes found in combat, to the return home to a land and a people now more foreign than the war itself was.

Matt Gallagher

#16. It was rare to find a member of the family who did not liquidate a relative or two, Cleopatra VII included.

Stacy Schiff

#17. When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment, and death is dreaded for it seems that here expectation must come to an end.

Alan W. Watts

#18. When I need it, I can call bitterness around me like mail armor, every thought a knot of steel, shielding the tenderness I have learned to hide as a daughter, mother, wife, and queen among warriors.

Susan Fraser King