For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.
A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.
Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".
There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken. . . you take hold of it. . . then you wring its neck. . . it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience. . . You find it simple. . . I don't
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.
The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.