Chuck Hagel Quotes

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.

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• I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Important
  • Love

• What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Good
  • Why
  • Law

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Personality
  • Successful

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Think
  • Lake
  • Lived

• I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Stop
  • Myself
  • Singing

• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Movie
  • Commitment
  • Reflection

• I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Like
  • Awesome
  • Brilliant

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Today
  • Understanding

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Meal
  • Scheme
  • Effectively

• Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Military

• Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Passion
  • Dance

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Kind
  • Scary

• I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Amazing
  • Discipline

• I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Down

• The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • World
  • Full
  • Pull

• Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy.

  

  Byron York
  • Party
  • Worry
  • President

• Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Reality
  • Party
  • Government

• I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.

  

  Chuck Hagel
  • Party