David Petraeus Quotes

Iran has had a very harmful effect in a variety of ways in the region... fomenting unrest to a degree in Saudi Arabia, undoubtedly in Bahrain, and definitely in Yemen with Hamas, with Lebanese Hezbollah among other activities in locations.

David Petraeus

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• I feel comfortable at 154 lbs.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Feel
  • Comfortable
  • I Feel

• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • You
  • Judge

• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • True
  • Hand
  • Struggle

• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Praise

• I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Done
  • Fashion

• If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • God
  • Live
  • Society

• When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Story
  • Wanted

• The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Action
  • Kind
  • President

• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • Fairy
  • Fairytale

• If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Pretty
  • Challenge
  • Scary

• Language is often changed by writers. We speak English today because Chaucer chose to write in the language of the common people, rather than the Latin or French used by those who were educated. James Joyce had an almost equally profound effect on language when he wrote about the inner self, rather than the outer self.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Today
  • English

• But bowed his comely headDown as upon a bed.

  

  Andrew Marvell

• Hold the door, say please, say thank you.Don't steal, don't cheat, and don't lie.I know you got mountains to climb, but always stay humble and kind.When the dreams you're dreamin' come to you.When the work you put in is realized.Let yourself feel the pride, but always stay humble and kind.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Work
  • Door
  • Pride

• I'm still alive, which is pretty cool.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I'm against the ways of the world where people feel like they need to always make things too perfect.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • People
  • World
  • Perfect

• I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator.

  

  Burt Shavitz

• I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • People
  • Kind
  • Mean

• I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Time
  • Fight

• I always want to have more dancers in my company.

  

  Alvin Ailey

• There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Poverty
  • Scary
  • India

• Iran has had a very harmful effect in a variety of ways in the region... fomenting unrest to a degree in Saudi Arabia, undoubtedly in Bahrain, and definitely in Yemen with Hamas, with Lebanese Hezbollah among other activities in locations.

  

  David Petraeus