David Petraeus Quotes
Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families.
Quotes to Explore
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Being evil is easy.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ have to satisfy one or another of the many-sided and ever increasing demands of the working population of town and countryside.
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Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
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Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families.
