David Petraeus Quotes

The process to resolve post-Islamic State issues will be difficult and intense.

David Petraeus

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• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Belief
  • Dies

• I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Early

• I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Children
  • Respect

• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Child
  • Interest
  • Labor

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Doubt
  • Exist

• Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Help
  • Motivated

• This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Me
  • Homeland
  • Kick

• Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Problem
  • Vision
  • Enough

• It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Selfish

• I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Nature
  • See
  • Back

• Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Religious

• I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Up
  • Like
  • Thought

• It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Different
  • Team
  • Rest

• Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Success
  • Growing
  • Yourself

• When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • May
  • Soul

• People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Children
  • She

• And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Wind

• It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Christian
  • Difficult
  • Islamic

• We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

  

  David R. Brower
  • Sea

• There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

  

  Mary Timony
  • Music
  • Men
  • Women

• The process to resolve post-Islamic State issues will be difficult and intense.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Islamic