David Petraeus Quotes
I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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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.
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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?'
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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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.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
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To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
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I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
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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.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Somebody once said to me 'You're turning into a mini-George with your little pranks'.
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So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.
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I'm a morning bird. I love getting up before it's light out if it's possible. I wake up, I have a black coffee. I'm an 86-year-old man. I try to work out first thing to get it over with. When I do it, I feel good because I have the endorphins all day.
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'
