David Petraeus Quotes

I've been in a position before where a president has turned to me in the Oval Office in a difficult moment, without any pleasantries, and said, 'I'm asking you as your president and Commander in Chief to take command of the international security force in Afghanistan.' The only response can be, 'Yes, Mr. President.'

David Petraeus

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• I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Family
  • Thankful
  • Doctors

• Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Man
  • Religious
  • Poetry

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Support
  • Road
  • Building

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Fame
  • Resistance

• I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Real
  • Want
  • Play

• It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Believe
  • You

• Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Different
  • Like
  • Drunk

• You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Work
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Together
  • Help

• I always love China, especially the old China.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Love
  • Always
  • Old

• If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Nice
  • Sleep

• In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Child
  • Situation
  • Where

• Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • War
  • Kind
  • Stupidity

• I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Great
  • Want
  • Sex

• I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Look
  • Edge

• Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both - somehow, we're both recording engineers, that's how we got our break.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Life

• I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

  

  Peter Berg
  • People
  • Football
  • Soldier

• Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Feeling
  • Energy
  • Body

• The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Evil
  • Story
  • Genocide

• I've been in a position before where a president has turned to me in the Oval Office in a difficult moment, without any pleasantries, and said, 'I'm asking you as your president and Commander in Chief to take command of the international security force in Afghanistan.' The only response can be, 'Yes, Mr. President.'

  

  David Petraeus