Chester W. Nimitz Quotes

We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

Chester W. Nimitz

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Purpose

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Scary
  • Old

• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Funny

• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • River

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Affection
  • Disappear
  • Spark

• I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Football
  • Baseball

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Greatness
  • Chase

• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Know
  • Danger
  • Israel

• The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Want
  • You
  • Pay

• Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Poetry
  • Will
  • Greatest

• I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Career
  • Community
  • Doubt

• If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Child
  • Routine
  • Your Child

• It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Greatness

• There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Islamic

• And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Experience
  • Support
  • Vision

• When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Time
  • Country
  • Business

• Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Find
  • Look

• We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

  

  Chester W. Nimitz
  • Enemy