Invalided Quotes

#1. The artist and writer Mervyn Peake, invalided out of military service, joined the Design, Poster and Visualising Group of the Ministry of Information in 1942.

Laura Brandon

#2. His father had been so seriously wounded, at Vimiera, that he was invalided home and placed on half pay; and in the same battle Captain O'Grady lost his left arm but, on its being cured, returned to his place in the regiment.

G.A. Henty

#3. So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

Piper Perabo

#4. People in this town saw only what they'd all agreed to see, they believed what was on the tube or in the morning papers half of them read while they were driving to work on the freeway, and it was all their dream about being wised up, about the truth setting them free.

Thomas Pynchon

#5. Doubt is a lot like faith; A mustard's seed worth changes everything.

Donna Johnson

#6. The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

Jonathan Swift

#7. If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.

Meg Rosoff

#8. Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Savior without repenting or changing his mind. The very fact that he trusts Christ for salvation shows that he has changed his mind regarding sin, salvation, and God.

Curtis Hutson

#9. How rich 'rich enough' is in a city like Delhi is debatable.

Neena Dass

#10. The Dragon hissed under his breath with annoyance: how dare a chimaera inconvenience him, coming out of season.

Naomi Novik

#11. We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2) to drive photosynthesis. That has been, throughout the history of our species, pretty stable. Until recently.

Sylvia Earle