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
  • Work
  • Care
  • Waiting

• 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
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Want
  • Getting Older

• 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
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• 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
  • Truth
  • Happy
  • Game

• Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Direct

• I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Disappointment

• Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Sophisticated
  • Musically

• Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • You
  • Me
  • See

• Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Mean
  • Feminist

• I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Stuff

• I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Believe
  • You
  • Attention

• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Better
  • Than
  • Perpetually

• 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
  • People
  • Long
  • Heart

• 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
  • Help

• 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
  • War
  • Violence
  • Dance

• Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Ruin
  • Dominate
  • Drain

• There are two ways in which we may attain control over our activity. The first is confidence in the power of our own will; to know that if we have failed today, tomorrow we will not do so. The second is to have our eyes wide open, and to watch keenly our activity in all aspects of life. It is in the dark that we fall, but in the light we can see where we are going.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Power
  • Control
  • Ways

• On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Information
  • Revolutionary
  • Tool

• I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • End
  • Fight
  • Train

• Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • God
  • Doubt
  • Pray

• I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'

  

  David Petraeus