Deferments Quotes

#1. In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years.

Charlie Savage

#2. Thus the story of the facts has to reckon with filters, deferments, partial truths, half lies: from it comes an arduous measurement of time passed that is based completely on the unreliable measuring device of words.

Elena Ferrante

#3. hard is just soft that has given in to pressure

Hilary Gallo

#4. I don't get it. This world is nothing but stuff I don't get.

Reki Kawahara

#5. Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.

Sally Field

#6. Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#7. Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.

Tony Gonzalez

#8. You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

Eugene V. Debs

#10. You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.

W.P. Kinsella

#11. Apologies are not pass/fail.

Randy Pausch

#12. It is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. Hebrews 11:6

Tony Dungy

#13. Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

#14. Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks

Amit Abraham

#15. The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual are today. When it came to investments, the romantic appeal of being a party to this technological revolution often dominated profit considerations.

Richard Bookstaber

#16. We all need each other, that's what makes it work

Brian E. Miller

#17. It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

Kingsley Amis