J Pow Quotes

#1. While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

John Yoo

#2. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r
T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

William Cowper

#3. Wow, colorful. I think the kid's head plowed into me. He came at me like a mortar. Pow! Skull meets tits. Tits lose.

J.D. Robb

#4. How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.

John Armstrong

#5. And, Father, most of all, you taught
Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught
Can thwart, and that it moves where truth
And courage speak, and neither youth
Nor age can hinder its success,
But only fear and quietness.

John Piper

#6. Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.

Dries Van Noten

#7. I got the wild style, always been a foul child,
My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.

Big L

#8. Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach'rous shore.

Horace

#9. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience ... I want to give them two hours of just pow.

Judy Garland

#10. Kneel not to me.
The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you;
The malice towards you to forgive you. Live,
And deal with others better.

William Shakespeare

#11. A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Andrew Vachss

#12. Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

W. E. B. Griffin

#13. Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.

Charles Churchill

#14. Senator John McCain, who spent over five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, publicly releases 1,000 pages of medical records. Now people are left with only open nagging questions: what kind of freak has 1,000 pages of medical records?

Jon Stewart

#15. I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

Larry Hovis