Quotes On Guard Duty

#1. Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam.

Jay Leno

#2. I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way.
...
"What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.

Rick Riordan

#3. Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

Robert Duvall

#4. One of the five new replacements went right on guard duty. He was hit in the neck within forty-five minutes. I don't know if he lived, but he never did come back. His war was pretty short.

- Don Bond

Marcus Brotherton

#5. It is my honour to act as your ceiling

Marian Keyes

#6. I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

Sanford Bishop

#7. The stick we're beaten with is hell, hell, hell!

Stephen King

#8. Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.
When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.

Terry Pratchett

#9. We cannot understand [Fascism], but we can and must understand from where it springs, and we must be on our guard ... because what happened can happen again ... For this reason, it is everyone's duty to reflect on what happened.

Primo Levi

#10. The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

James Anthony Froude

#11. The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

George Whitefield

#12. The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

P.D. Ouspensky

#13. Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills.

Suzanne Somers

#14. Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part-time job. And it didn't pay well at all.

Sherman Alexie

#15. To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

Ferdinand Foch

#16. We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God's protection.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. When I go there to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the question both asked - and if it's not asked, implied - is, 'Are you staying this time?' because we left last time, in 1989 in Afghanistan, and we sanctioned Pakistan from 1990 to 2002. So I think it's a fair question.

Michael Mullen

#19. I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

Johnny Depp

#20. It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

John Hunt Morgan

#21. You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

Amit Ray

#22. They took a bite from the forbidden fruit, and the fruit bit back.

Kevin DeYoung

#23. I may sample at Pinkberry, but when I find a flavor I like, I'm pretty committed to it.

CeeLo Green

#24. The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

#25. Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

John Spratt

#26. You don't trust any man, Ephani. (Danger)
And neither should you, little sister. Take a bit of Amazon advice. Ride him into the ground all night long, then slide a blade between his ribs come morning. (Ephani)
That's harsh. (Alexion)
So is life. (Ephani)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. All the f
experts in America, everybody who thinks they know about soccer, they can all look at the score tonight and let's see what they have to say now. Nobody has any respect for what we do, for what goes on on the inside, so let them all talk now.

Michael Bradley

#28. He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

#29. If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#30. Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies
Just as enemies must not be friends.
Discerning the two is a life's work.

David Petersen