David Hackworth Quotes

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Same

• I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Play
  • Wanted
  • More

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• 'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Me
  • Feel

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Long
  • Conviction

• I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Me
  • Like
  • Idea

• The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Community

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Ambition

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Humanity
  • For Him

• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Drama
  • Moment

• I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.

  

  Victoria Arlen

• We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Good
  • Ideas

• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Bored
  • Awards

• Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Future
  • Faith

• I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

  

  Chris Rock
  • Dark
  • Weird

• Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.

  

  David Hackworth
  • Good
  • Game
  • Support