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

• Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Opinion

• Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

  

  Dirk Benedict
  • Time
  • Success
  • City

• Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests.

  

  Carl Holmes
  • Feelings
  • Kindness
  • Others

• I am deeply shocked by the news of this bomb, and I extend my sympathies to all who have been injured. Details of exactly what has happened and the nature of the injuries are not clear.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Nature
  • Injuries
  • Bomb

• Knowledge of music business gives us access to artists, talent and a unique approach to performing services for advertising. Not to mention the branding implications of unique music with original sense for linking an advertiser, its message and its target.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Music
  • Business
  • Artists

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

  

  David Petraeus