Martin Dempsey Quotes
What will eventually cause the defeat of ISIL is that it will collapse under its own contradictions, frankly. When the populations in which it tries to maneuver realize that that ideology is not to their future benefit.
Quotes to Explore
-
Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
-
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
-
If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
-
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
-
Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
-
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
-
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
-
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
-
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
-
The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
-
I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
-
I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
-
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
-
We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
-
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
-
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
-
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
-
I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
-
I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.
-
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
-
If I had to start over, I'll do the same thing: street clothes are the future; the client can choose two or three things and combine them as she wants.
-
The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all.
-
What will eventually cause the defeat of ISIL is that it will collapse under its own contradictions, frankly. When the populations in which it tries to maneuver realize that that ideology is not to their future benefit.
