David Petraeus Quotes
I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'David Petraeus
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
Laura Dern -
I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
Rachelle Lefevre -
I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
Vik Muniz -
My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
Rafael Nadal -
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons -
I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
Larisa Oleynik
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
Harriet Tubman -
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
Maggie Gallagher -
To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
Barry Hannah -
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. Forbes
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The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.
Camille Paglia -
What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.
Dan Simmons -
Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. (Hays translation)
Marcus Aurelius -
Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man, in my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life.
Ty Cobb
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And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell -
Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
Leroy Chiao -
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
Al Smith -
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.
Deborah Prothrow-Stith -
Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.
Robert James Ritchi -
I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'
David Petraeus