A Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

Guy Gavriel Kay

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Guy Gavriel Kay
Canadian - Author
Born: November 7, 1954

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

Richard Roxburgh

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

Edmund Burke

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

Alain de Botton

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Joan Jett

Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

Albert Einstein

I went through a period when I did military roles and played basically someone who was unfit for military service.

Michael O'Keefe

We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

Adi Da

... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.

Alice S Rossi

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

Derek Harold Richard Barton

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

Tori Spelling

But I want to be an actor who fulfills any roles assigned to me.

Seo In-guk

Actresses are defined more by the roles they say 'no' to it than the roles they say 'yes' to it.

Andrea Jeremiah

The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.

William J. Brennan

I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look.

Kabir Bedi

After the success of 'Qabool Hai,' I was always assigned for the same type of roles.

Amrapali Gupta

Mikhail Saakashvili would do everything within his power to destroy me, first as a politician and then as a person. All government authorities, including the police, the military and the courts, are controlled by those in power.

Irakli Okruashvili

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