Deferment Quotes

#1. I knew that as a pharmacy student I would obtain military deferment. As I was of Jewish origin, this meant that I would not have to serve in a forced labor unit of the Hungarian army.

John Harsanyi

#2. At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Garry Trudeau

#3. Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?

George Gissing

#4. I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.

Don Young

#5. The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

Robert Shapiro

#6. We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.

Terry Eagleton

#7. If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.

Richard Elman

#8. During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

Al Franken

#9. For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

Jeff Bezos

#10. Suffering is unbearable if you aren't certain that God is for you and with you.

Timothy Keller

#11. The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.

Pope Francis

#12. I want to crawl into bed with you every night from tonight on. I want to love you and make love to you every night from tonight on.

Kat Austen

#13. No matter how fleeting
Your smile is,
Your smile is the very beginning
Of your wisdom-light.

Sri Chinmoy

#14. If you are living for tomorrow, you will always be one day behind.

Bill Hicks

#15. Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. I'm beginning to think that you aren't with child. You've simply become fat after reading too many recipes.

Meljean Brook

#17. The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.

William Anthony Donohue

#18. Love is photogenic, it develops in the dark.

Lorraine Gokul

#19. The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

Saul Williams

#20. He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, completely naked in front, missing limbs, missing faces, some breathing, some moaning, and others just deader than a door nail.

Laurence Gonzales

#21. When you constantly hear the wrong things, the power of the truth you knew before loses its grip.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

William Shakespeare