Quotes About Enlisting

#1. Whatever the reason for enlisting, by 1865 the Union had sworn in 2,128,948 men, approximately one-third of the military-age male population of the northern states, while the Confederacy probably enrolled a little under 1 million men, about four-fifths of its military-age male population.

Allen C. Guelzo

#2. When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

Seymour Cassel

#3. I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into.

Suzanne Collins

#4. Strength to do battle begins with enlisting the strength of God.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#5. Revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.

David McCullough

#7. From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.

James Forrestal

#8. Genre pleasures are many, but the quality of shared values within an ongoing discussion may be the most powerful, enlisting lifelong devotion in its fans.

Gregory Benford

#9. Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting under a new leader. Conversion is a revolutionary process.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#10. We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

Jack Kemp

#11. This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.

Edward Boches

#12. I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Larry David

#13. To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#14. If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Charles Simmons

#15. When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

Samantha Power

#16. It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

Clint Eastwood

#17. I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.

Kurt Russell

#18. Like some strange little religion all its own, the one thing that makes the whole system work is the one thing that it robs you of - faith.

Craig Johnson

#19. I felt a huge drive to make clothes that everybody could have because I felt ostracized by that world of beauty and fashion. I never thought I would have a part in it. Never in a million years.

Jenna Lyons

#20. Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this - then steer away from here.

Caitlin Moran

#21. A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#22. I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she was pregnant, and then she fell down the stairs in her eighth month of pregnancy. She nearly died; I believe I came into this world for a reason.

Shilpa Shetty

#23. It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at 'our favorite spot,' and it made them think of you and miss being there with you. That's a friend, to me.

Crystal Woods

#24. If we are known mostly for our ability to poke holes in every human project, we will probably not be known as people who bear the hope and mercy of God.

Andy Crouch

#25. Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

Larry Hagman

#26. I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

Otto Dix

#27. Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy," I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life.

Cat Winters

#28. His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.

William Shakespeare

#29. People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and what.

Anthony Liccione

#30. Papa, you were right. Love did come after security.

Jade Onyx

#31. Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.

Paul Theroux