Quotes About Australian Soldiers

#1. I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.

Alan G. Poindexter

#2. What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

Philip Gourevitch

#3. The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#4. Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs.

Joan Rivers

#5. Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.

Ludwig Von Mises

#6. We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.

Joseph Wechsberg

#7. When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today ... 40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that.

Richard Patrick

#8. A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Walter Bagehot

#9. You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Slay the dragon - though I really think dragons get a bad rap - kiss the princess, or the frog, defeat the bad witch.

Nora Roberts

#10. She was a Roman Cardinal, chaste, but for the perfect choirboy.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. People have all this resentment against their parents for fucking them up, but they never realize, the minute they have a kid, that they cease being the child so fondly victimized in their hearts and start being the benighted perpetrators of unfathomable pain.

Joshua Ferris