Ret Quotes

#1. There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

James Baldwin

#2. To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.- Capt. Bligh(ret.)

Robert Asprin

#3. Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

H.G.Wells

#4. Twitter can be great and very bad.

LeAnn Rimes

#5. The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

James Frey

#6. Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.

Victor Manuel Rivera

#7. Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#8. Fermat's assertion that if n is any whole number and p any prime, then n multiplied by itself p times minus n is divisible by p.

Sylvia Nasar

#9. If you chose to listen within you will get some really helpful information. You really do know the answer. Intuition is always at the ready.

Jude Bijou

#10. Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close;
Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?

Johann Martin Usteri

#11. I thought we stopped using grunts as guinea pigs decades ago. Even the Nazis didn't run medical experiments on their own troops in combat. This book explodes like a grenade in the Pentagon's privy. Red it and weep; better yet, get mad."

Col. David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army, ret.)

Gary Matsumoto

#12. The 'I' [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this 'I' uses a language that is alien to her; this 'I' [Je] experiences what is alien to her since this 'I' [Je] cannot be un ecrivain. J/e poses the ideological and historical question of feminine subjects.

Monique Wittig

#13. Your integrity is sacrosanct. It is who you are. Never let anyone step on your integrity - that's absolutely where you must stand solid.

Ret. Gen. Peter Pace

#14. A flow'ret crushed in the bud,
A nameless piece of Babyhood,
Was in her cradle-coffin lying;
Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying

Charles Lamb

#15. I have only one prayer to offer to God, and it is that when I have been driven out of every society He will give me shelter at His own feet.

Rabindranath Tagore