David Petraeus Quotes

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

David Petraeus

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• Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Giving
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Know
  • Me

• Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Curious

• You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Want
  • Words
  • Know

• You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Guy
  • You
  • Never

• In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • School
  • Saying

• Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Woman

• Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • You
  • See

• Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Poverty
  • Go

• Movies are romantic fantasies.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Romantic
  • Fantasies

• Take three quarts of duck's milk...

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

• It is odd how pleasant and sympathetic her poems are, in these days when many a poet had rather walk down children like Mr. Hyde than weep over them like Swinburne, and when many a poem is gruesome occupational therapy for a poet who stays legally innocuous by means of it.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Children

• : What do people think?What, do people think?

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.

  

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart

• My father was haunted. He was bad at conjuring small talk, he watched very little TV, because once Conscious, every commercial, every program must be strip-mined for its deeper meaning, until it lays bare its role in this sinister American plot.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Bad
  • Father

• It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.

  

  David Harewood

• Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Age

• Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Knows
  • Imagine
  • Wells

• I've been going to the same barber the last few years, and we have great chats whenever I'm in the chair. He'll ask: 'How you doing? How's the training going?' Just ordinary, obvious things, but then, like you do with your barber, you start talking about personal stuff.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Training
  • Same

• Country music, to me, is what I grew up on.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.'

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • World

• I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

  

  David Petraeus