The Deserter Quotes

#1. Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on.

Chico Xavier

#2. Shades of Harry the deserter, I thought furiously. What in God's name is the British army coming to? Glorious traditions, my aunt Fanny.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices.

Mitch Albom

#4. If I left I would feel a deserter - like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team.

Arsene Wenger

#5. Nyx did what she always did after she shot a terrorist or garrotted a deserter. She carried on.

Kameron Hurley

#6. The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#8. Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into full ralization of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#9. He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

Jose Marti

#10. It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter."
"It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake of our quest."
"It isn't right," Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes.
"We do not speak of rightness," Taran answered. "We speak of a task to be finished.

Lloyd Alexander

#12. Maybe it's a sick fantasy of mine, but I am really looking forward to a debate between a general and a deserter. Plus, I really want to hear President Bush have to say, 'Yes, General, No, General.'

Michael Moore

#13. In short, and this is a highly important point to grasp, the depression is the "recovery" process, and the end of the depression heralds the return to normal, and to optimum efficiency.

Murray N. Rothbard

#14. I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants

Michael Moore

#15. The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

Lord Chesterfield

#16. I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the world. I'm not a poet. Nor do I try to be one. I simply share what I do in my spare time. All poetry springs from genuine feelings. I'm only a woman expressing herself to the world.

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#17. Damn it, Cora, we could have been exposed! You can't take joyrides like that. What if someone saw you?" Nessa lectured.
"And you, Noah; stop it with the dirty thoughts. She just lost her boyfriend so don't even think about it. Do we understand each other?

Andrea Heltsley

#18. You taste like metal & blood,
kiss like a man's last gunshot.
I could find religion in your face.
Build a church in the palms of your hands.

Elisabeth Hewer

#19. Sure there are poets which did never dream
Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream
Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose
Those made not poets, but the poets those.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. The two of us hold each other's gazes for a long, unembarrassed moment and I feel that Ky knows. I'm not sure what he knows - whether he knows me, or just something about me.

Ally Condie

#21. The book was a pleasure to write, and I thought it both original and good, though what was original about it was not necessarily good, and what was good about it was not always original.

Robert Charles Wilson

#22. For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.

Harold Rosenberg

#23. An overseer called him a traitor, and Rytlock killed him. That's how he became an overseer. Later, a legionnaire called him a deserter, and Rytlock killed him as well. That's how he became a legionnaire.

J. Robert King

#24. Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

Jimmy Buffett

#25. I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life ... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.

Ruskin Bond

#26. Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?" Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is own ears.
"Maybe in farewell, maybe in defiance. Maybe to hold back the dark for one more night.

Rosemary Sutcliff