Bill Mauldin on conception
Bill Mauldin15 quotes“I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man’s conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.”
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If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you’d conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin I’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin When we realize finally that we aren’t God’s given children, we’ll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin A soldier’s life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I’ve been able to follow my kid’s progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin What you are about to hear is God’s word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power – that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.
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Bill MauldinBill Mauldin But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom.
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
Bill MauldinBill Mauldin We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Dag HammarskjoldDag Hammarskjold We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
Alan BennettAlan Bennett The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
Alain de BottonAlain de Botton You will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
Adrienne ClarksonAdrienne Clarkson Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
PetroniusPetronius The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene
