But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that… — Pascal Boyer Copy Share Image
Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up… — Wil S. Hylton Copy Share Image
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance. — Babe Paley Copy Share Image
“I know I should feel appreciative of Boggs sticking his neck out for me, but really I'm just frustrated. I mean, how… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Morale still seems reasonably high and, while the desertion rate has risen, it is still limited to those who can walk.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for… — Hallie Erminie Rives Copy Share Image
The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other? — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image