#corps

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses. ↗

— Dan Savage

#city #cop #corpses #dad #depressing

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#change #change the world #corps #going #idealist

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#apologetic #corps #enthusiasm #guilty #peace

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#corps #could #i #interviewed #live

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#anyone #corps #draft #easier #fort

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#collective #constitutionally #corpses #incapable #producing

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#became #become #civil #civil servants #class

Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse. ↗

— Daniel Taradash

#die #fast #good-looking #live #young

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#drag #howard #into #johnson #main

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#another #books #call #central #corps