David Petraeus Quotes

We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.

David Petraeus

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• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
  • Football
  • Leave

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Done
  • Cost
  • Stability

• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Follow

• There are no second acts in American lives.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • American
  • Lives
  • Second

• Many small businesses rely on small financial institutions, like credit unions and community banks, to meet their capital requirements. Without them, these small businesses would have to close their doors.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Community
  • Financial

• I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Silly

• Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Society
  • Artists
  • Going

• I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Rich

• To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Great
  • Radio

• True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Time
  • Good
  • True

• Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • World
  • Heart
  • Hope

• Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Action
  • Little
  • Shooting

• You can always change your plan, but only if you have one..'

  

  Randy Pausch

• The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • She
  • Book
  • Funny

• When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• Music is the space between the notes.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music
  • Space

• When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Knowledge

• I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Writing
  • Magic
  • Changed

• Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services.

  

  Lisa Gansky
  • Energy
  • Path
  • Management

• We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.

  

  David Petraeus