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Quotes for Life

"Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel. For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should....My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether be life or by death."~ The Apostle Paul: Eph 6:18-20; Phil 1:20

"Lord, I intend it to thy glory, and let no profane misinterpreter abuse it to thy diminution."
~John Donne

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
~ John Adams

"You have enemies? Good. It means you've stood up for something."
~ Winston Churchill

"I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence."
~ Ben Jonson

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

~ George Washington

"Country music is about new love and it’s about old love. It’s about gettin’ drunk and gettin’ sober. It’s about leavin’ and it’s about comin’ home. It’s real music sung by real people for real people, the people that make up the backbone of this country. You can call us rednecks if you want. We’re not offended, ’cause we know what we’re all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary."

~ Jeff Foxworthy

"The most dangerous predator of liberals is the real world. They hide from it in college campuses."
~ www.imao.us

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
~ President Theodore Roosevelt

"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!"
~ Edna Ferber

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in an argument."
~ Robert Frost

"I'm a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ."
~Ann Coulter

"Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother."
~ Phyllis Schlafly

"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions."
~ G. K. Chesterson

"It isn't going to bed with a man that proves you're in love with him. It's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful, everyday world with him that counts."
~ Yours, Mine and Ours

"I owe nothing to women's lib."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

~ Henry VI

"We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic."

~ Rush Limbaugh

"True religion and true philosophy must ultimately arrive at the same conclusion."

~S.S. Smith

"There's no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit."

~ Jack Dake

"If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"What I felt like saying was, 'I've produced my third child and my sixth book since I last saw you. Aren't either of these things more important, more interesting, than my size?' But no - my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book; finally, something to celebrate! Maybe this seems funny or trivial, but it's really not."
~ JK Rowling

"Dear Lord
Lest I continue
My complacent way
Help me to remember
Somehow out there
A man died for me today.
As long as there be war
I then must
Ask and answer
Am I worth dying for?"~Anon
"[Judgment] comes from four sources: God, nature, diligence and conversation. Serve the first, and the rest will serve you."
~ Ben Jonson

"I think political correctness is a wonderful fad. Probably not as spiritually uplifting as the hula-hoop, but undoubtedly better for the health."
~ Waiting for God

"Our God and soldier we alike adore. At the brink of danger, not before. After deliverance, both alike requited. Our God's forgotten and our soldiers slighted."
~ Oliver North

"The way to tell the professional writers from the amateur writers is that the amateurs only write when they feel like it."
~ Jerry Van Cook

"Remember that only in cheesy romance novels is the heroine guaranteed to find true love without the risk of vulnerability or pain."
~ Dear Prudence column

"We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue."
~ from "The Birth of a Nation"

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move."
~Captain America

"While God doesn’t promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity."
~ Tony Snow

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
~ John Stuart Mill

"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. In the fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there. In her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
~ Alexis de Tocqueville

"I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls."
~ J.K. Rowling

Wisdom from the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan:
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Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound.

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget...in the final analysis...that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.

November 18, 2009

Who got a letter?

I got a letter!!

Actually, I got 2! (UPDATE: Got a 3rd today. Super excited! I hope he doesn't run out of stamps, though....)

I went to the mailbox yesterday, knowing SoldierMan had mailed his letter(s) Monday. I tried to suppress the bubbling hope that somehow the regular mail service had become Speedy Gonzalez since we were living in the same state, but I *knew* that wasn't very likely. I kept telling myself not to expect a letter before Friday, just to be safe.

And they both came on Tuesday!! :) :)

So happy.....

So happy, in fact, that I got caught up in reading his letters and lost track of time, and didn't get to fix my hair before I went to base to get my ID. So I look like a crazy bag lady on my new military ID card. Oh well, it's an ID picture, not Glamor Shots.

I get to the recruiting station (because SoldierMan's recruiter was going to walk me through the whole process since I am completely unfamiliar with the base) and hurt my car. Long story - parked on an incline - wound up with the lower nose panel hanging off while I drove the 30+ miles from the station to the base. Recruiter snapped part of it back into place. Went by my parents' last night and my dad bolted it back on to where it's at least drivable now. (And why won't I let SoldierMan buy me a new car, even though we could afford higher payments??? I'm like the person who shouldn't own pets - cars just aren't safe around me).

Then I tried to make chicken wings and fried rice for dinner, which usually turns out well, but I think the marinade was out of date. Anyway, this now makes 3 days without doing p90x because my stomach just wouldn't settle last night. I'm getting out of the habit and it's baaaaaad.

But none of that matters, because I got my letters yesterday and got to mail mine off. I'm so stinkin happy. :)

12 comments:

Jaime G.November 18, 2009 at 7:39 AM
ID Card Pictures = Never Good

I've had mine made in the midst of moving, on a normal day and on a day where I made sure to look good. All of them horrible. HORRIBLE!
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CharityNovember 18, 2009 at 7:43 AM
Yeah for letters!! I cannot wait until KS gets to mail me and I finally get his address!
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CharityNovember 18, 2009 at 7:55 AM
Thanks! I love it, I am sure KS is bored out of his mind right now as well.
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The Mrs.November 18, 2009 at 8:05 AM
I still have every letter that we sent each other while he was in boot camp (cripes 12 years ago!) and flight school and for his various deployments.... sigh... to go back and read them is funny now.
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aeNovember 18, 2009 at 8:16 AM
YAY for letters! And I think it is a requirement for ID pictures to be terrible:)
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AshleyNovember 18, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Letters!
At least your husband writes. T has promised that when he leaves he WILL write... but knowing him, it still won't happen. ;)
Do you really have bad problems with cars? ha, my only bad luck revolves around the tires on my car. Everything else stays in-tact.
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Kate CraigNovember 18, 2009 at 8:44 AM
it's nice that Army recruiters do that! not ours! I had an Army friend take me.
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stefanieNovember 18, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Yay!!! I wrote my husband every day when he was in basic... yeah, I was a little obsessed with it. Haha. Letters are the best. keep them all for memories!!! I still have all of ours from 4 years ago.
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Mrs. G.I. JoeNovember 18, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Ugh I hate ID card time! 3 years in a row I happened to wear the exact same shirt!

But yay for letters! I used to carry around G.I. Joe's most recent letters in my purse when he was deployed. You gotta love a man who can write a love letter!
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AshleyNovember 18, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Those letters from BMT are the BEST!!!
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KrysTrosNovember 18, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Congrats on the letters! Boo on the damaged car :(
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AshleyNovember 18, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Yay for letters, pretty sure they can brighten up even the darkest of days! Joel's group had to do push-ups to "earn" their letters...if it smelled girly, had colored ink (even blue) or was sealed with a kiss it added to the amount they had to do...of course he tells me this after he gets done with basic and I sent him the girliest looking and smelling letters in the history of mankind...pretty sure I set some sort of record for most push-ups earned on a single letter! ha ha ...we still have all our old letters they really are fun to look back on every now and then. :)
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