Uniforms Quotes - Page 24

• A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Lovers, Lad

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

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• I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mother, Morning, Home

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.162, Penguin

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• The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Feet, Athletic, Looks

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.184, Harlequin

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• The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Thinking, World

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara) You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical. Except for the ones who lost control of their bowels. Then it was just messy. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Should Have, People, League

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Night: Number 1 in series”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole. All of this despite repeated revelations of the illegality and immorality of the military's own incarceration systems, from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, whose systematic practices border on if not actually constitute torture.

  Michael Hardt

  Military, Practice, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

  Oprah Winfrey

  School, Kids, Sneakers

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• I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mean, Doctors, Years

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• My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

  Vera Wang

  Design, Dresses, Gowns

  "My List: Vera Wang in 24 Hours" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

  Matt Taibbi

  Russia, America, Insane

  "The Bad Boy On the Bus: An Interview With Matt Taibbi". Interview with Janelle Nanos, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2005.

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• Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, Rude, Smelly

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• The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Night, Light

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.1, Spectra

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• Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict’s uniform.

  John Marsden

  Beach, Twilight, Tree

  John Marsden (1998). “Everything I Know About Writing”, p.111, Pan Australia

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• I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

  Marcus Sedgwick

  Girl, Mean, Men

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• There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink. He went to have a look. The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. "What's this?" he asked Aunt Petunia. "Your new school uniform," she said. Harry looked in the bowl again. "Oh," he said, "I didn't realize it had to be so wet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Dirty, School

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• It's funny what they say about men in uniform - how people think women just can't resist 'em. Fact is, I think we're just pleased to see a man groomed, bathed, and wearing clothes that fit him.

  Cherie Priest

  Men, Thinking, Clothes

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Dreadnought”, p.230, Pan Macmillan

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• There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.

  Steven Brust

  Thinking, Brain, Special

  Steven Brust (2010). “Iorich”, p.243, Macmillan

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• The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way.

  Jim Benton

  Art, Way, Ends

  Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.10, Scholastic

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• Ooh, big day in town for our park warden,” I said. “They’re even making you wear the uniform. Hayley’s mom will be happy. She thinks you look hot in it.” Dad turned as red as his hair. Mom’s laugh floated out from her studio. “Maya Delaney. Leave your father alone.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mom, Dad, Father

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• That evening, Dudley paraded around the living room for the family in his brand new uniform...As he looked at Dudley in his new knickerbockers, Uncle Vernon said gruffly that if was the proudest moment of his life. Aunt Petunia burst into tears and said she couldn't believe it was her Ickle Dudleykins, he looked so handsome and grown-up. Harry didn't trust himself to speak. He thought two of his ribs might already have cracked from trying not to laugh.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Believe, Aunt

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• Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

  Pat Conroy

  Life Changing, Writing, Thinking

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• Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Sound, Rhyming, Structure

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• I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Funny, Teacher, School

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Long, People

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• But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an extreme example, or even to a low level of the pie, than the effect of that situation is that free immigration, would mean a reduction of everybody to the same, uniform level. Of course, I'm exaggerating, it wouldn't go quite that far, but it would go in that direction. And it is that perception, that leads people to adopt what at first seems like inconsistent values.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Hands, Pie

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