Quotes About Reserve

Not a whisper of flatulence would dare this man's bowels.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

The first kiss was at once passionate and chaste, a kiss that contained everything that was to mark their future together—his aching need for her, the slightest sense of reserve on her part, as if she would always hold back a piece of herself. Their last kiss contained their entire history.

So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes – - the one evil they are willing to indict with impunity.

Vedi, l'amore è come l'ossigeno, se ci manca per troppo tempo finiamo per morirne. Tu in quei pochi mesi mi hai amato talmente tanto che ho avuto una riserva d'amore per anni e anni. Grazia a essa ho potuto affrontare molte cose, ma ormai sento di aver esaurito la scorta, Martin.»

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

My stepfather was a military man: he was in the Air Force. Reserve. You thought he'd seen front-line action, but he was stationed in Cleveland.

I always fall for the truly cold, cold people, cold men because I decide their reserve and awkwardness is really bottled-up warmth that they're waiting for me to release, an act for which they'll repay me with extravagant love.

Yes, we have some cash.

She was so reserved, he felt she had much to reserve.

The truth is I never knew him well—only well enough to know that I didn't wish to know him better. •

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

Tessa was sincere but shallow; she was loving but mercurial; she was an exhibitionist without enough confidence to be an actor. While Fiona displayed all the characteristics of elder children: stability, confidence, intellect in abundance, and that cold reserve with which to judge all the shortcomings of the world.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.' 'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.

Elinor, cried Marianne, is this fair? is this just? are my ideas so scanty? But I see what you mean. I have been too much at my ease, too happy, too frank. I have erred against every common-place notion of decorum; I have been open and sincere where I ought to have been reserved, spiritless, dull, and deceitful:- had I talked only of the weather and the roads, and had I spoken only once in ten minutes, this reproach would have been spared.

Non vorrei mai offendere nessuno, ma sono così stupidamente timido che spesso sembro freddo e indifferente mentre invece sono trattenuto soltanto dalla mia goffaggine naturale.

I know that the Federal Reserve vault holds more gold than Fort Knox. Fort Knox only holds about four thousand six hundred tons of gold. The Federal Reserve vault holds approximately seven thousand. That's a lot of gold.

With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.