David Petraeus Quotes

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

David Petraeus

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• We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Will
  • Move
  • Forward

• As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
  • Year
  • Now

• For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Up
  • Way
  • Audience

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Time
  • House

• Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Me

• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • You
  • Will
  • Saying

• I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Women
  • Gay
  • Say

• We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

  

  J. T. Walsh
  • Going
  • Material
  • Metaphors

• What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Gun
  • Lose
  • Worst

• Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.

  

  Waverley Lewis Root
  • Country
  • Want
  • Enough

• I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Time
  • Done
  • Friends

• I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Memories

• The location was very difficult to get to. I recall rock-climbing a good deal of the way in that long skirt, and I felt terrible for the crew members who had to haul the heavy equipment. For some reason, they couldn't get there by helicopter.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Good
  • Long
  • Rock

• To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God

• If your not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Cute
  • Cheer

• I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.

  

  Andy Warhol

• My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • You
  • Water

• Oh, God, food is a constant struggle for me. With exercise, I get my workout done, and I'm done until tomorrow. With food, I eat, and then an hour later I'm hungry again!

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • God
  • Done
  • Food

• Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, and then he would retrace his thought steps so that he could make it absolutely clear, and that's one of the infinite number of things I learned from him.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Numbers

• I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Language
  • I Love
  • French

• You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • Done
  • Night

• The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

  

  David Petraeus