Quotes About Desertion

For the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs, Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness. They desert the fallen. They are plastered over with grimaces.

convened a court that hastily found Burroughs guilty of desertion and pronounced the sentence: death.

If you were AWOL when your company was going back into combat you might as well keep going because your own officers would blow you away, and they didn't even have to say it was the Germans. That's desertion in the face of the enemy. While

Gradualmente desertó el auditorio y parpadearon algunas luces en las casuchas, luces que, en vez de apagarse, no parecía sino que habían huido al cielo para convertirse en estrellas.

She talks about the desertion. How each time it broke her heart. How with each break it became harder to heal. How with each time she healed, it became harder to love again. How each time hope faded into desolation. Into loneliness and despair. Into self-hatred and self-loathing. At the beginning there was hope. It faded. At the end there was nothing.

Under the stars,I tried to sleep,but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat,any time,anywhere-had deserted me.

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

When somebody starts going down, rats start leaving the sinking ship.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

Sooner or later they all turn their backs. They all leave. That's gospel. I've been there. I've seen it. They all do.

The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.

The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.

and bottles and they left

There are few more melancholy sensations than those with which we regard scenes of past pleasure when altered and deserted.

Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his family would be destitute -- a powerful incentive to stay married.

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

šeima - pernelyg drausminga armija, kad užjaust? dezertyrus.

The worst feeling is to be ignored once, then twice, then again and again by someone you consider precious.

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

How she felt, now, was just the way she'd felt that day she'd come back to the trailer and found her mother all packed up and gone. No message there but a can of ravioli in a pot on the stove, with the can-opener propped up beside it. She hadn't eaten that ravioli and she hadn't eaten any since and she knew she never would.

But she wasn't there, leaving the unarmed Walter alone and unprotected.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Stavrovicha, is a selfish, vain, and unattractive creature who deserts her husband in favour of a young officer, Balashev. Her elderly, betrayed