Delivery Quotes - Page 12

• The Kurds' achievement was outstanding, both militarily and diplomatically. European governments recognized this and abandoned their resistance to weapons deliveries. Germany, too, acted correctly. Now, we need a joint military leadership so that the Kurds and the army can retake Mosul.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Military, Army, Achievement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Needs, Bigs

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.99, University of Iowa Press

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• I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.

  Nathan Fillion

  Mom, Mother, Nice

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

  Neal Stephenson

  Four, Speed, Software

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.2, Spectra

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• And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?' . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.

  Ted Dekker

  Memories, Darkness, Mind

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• How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one of the ministers. She constantly demands to see her mother," said another, "and somewhat less constantly demands that we return her homburg to her.

  Frank Beddor

  Mother, Children, Drug

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• Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is that I also happen to love Jesus. When I'm approaching these songs, I'm not approaching them like Mozart. I see my faith and the struggle of my ancestors and of a people seeking freedom beside what these songs are going to be in terms of their arrangement and delivery.

  Measha Brueggergosman

  Spiritual, Song, Jesus

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Yippee. I’ve been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I’ll write a letter home to Mother. She’ll be so pleased.” --Leif

  Maria V. Snyder

  Mother, Home, Writing

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Storm Glass”, p.347, MIRA

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• Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sandwiches, Maps, Mixtures

  "There and Back Again…." by Patrick Rothfuss, blog.patrickrothfuss.com. May 4, 2010.

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• I have a computer, a vibrator, and pizza delivery. Why should I leave the house? " - Tabitha

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  House, Computer, Should

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• On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.

  Douglas Adams

  Waiting, Tea, Jugs

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at the dock doors, overseeing the delivery. He gives me a sidewise look. “Wow. That was, like, a whole sentence. With nouns and verbs and connective tissue. Endemic. Fancy word.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Doors, Giving, Verbs

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.89, Delacorte Press

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