Martin Dempsey Quotes

I've been in the group that believes it's in our national interest to close Guantanamo. It does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does.

Martin Dempsey

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• Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Humanity

• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Career

• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver

• I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Line
  • Circle
  • Round

• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Government
  • Opinion
  • Polls

• When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Country
  • Together
  • Serious

• Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Film
  • Risks
  • Documentary

• The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Together
  • Dream

• I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Woman
  • Wear
  • Suit

• Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Weird

• I used to see media on Althea Flynt and she was very wild looking. She had a mohawk and she published Hustler-I thought that was crazy. But when you study her, she was so innocent and frail and sort of birdlike, and sweet. She stayed sweet until she died, but I don't know what happened for her to get into drugs or the things she got into.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Crazy
  • Study
  • Sweet

• In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been emminent in that profession?

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great
  • Men
  • Country

• Looking fifty is great-if you're sixty.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Great

• Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Control

• I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Question

• Every life - regardless of background or gender - has equal value.

  

  Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
  • Gender
  • Background
  • Regardless

• Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Hates
  • Plates
  • Forks

• The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Up
  • Truck

• I've been in the group that believes it's in our national interest to close Guantanamo. It does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does.

  

  Martin Dempsey