David Petraeus Quotes

Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

David Petraeus

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• There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Start
  • Agreement

• Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Want

• Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Science
  • Everyday

• I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Company
  • Google
  • Insult

• So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

  

  Isaac Goldberg
  • World
  • Stage
  • Which

• Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Violence

• After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • May
  • Business
  • Start

• When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Happy
  • Today

• The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Education
  • Hand

• If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • People
  • Friends
  • Nature

• Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

  

  Dan Savage
  • War
  • Political
  • Culture

• A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Community

• It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Health
  • Gold

• The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Harder

• One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

  

  Sallust
  • Identity
  • Friendship
  • Likes

• The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

  

  Elaine A. Cannon
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Inside

• I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighborhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swollen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children who clung to their skirts and wanted to be picked up. And, good God, they were ten, at most twenty years older than me.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Silent

• When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a person's natural tendency is to reject that organ.

  

  Anthony Atala
  • Different

• You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.

  

  Edward Leedskalnin
  • Book
  • Education
  • Write

• Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

  

  David Petraeus