Douglas Bader Quotes
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.Douglas Bader
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
Jackie Robinson -
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
Patrick Ewing -
Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.
Karrine Steffans -
Events tend to recur in cycles.
W. Clement Stone -
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
Barry Diller -
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
Abigail Breslin
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
Barry McCaffrey -
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Ovid -
I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
Cale Yarborough -
The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
Kate Winslet -
I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
Candace Camp -
I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.'
Zach Anner
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In your composer Schönberg's works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.
Wassily Kandinsky -
He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.
Orson Scott Card -
I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
L. Frank Baum -
You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!
Charles Dickens -
'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'
Kid Cudi -
I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
Lord Salisbury
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Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.
Dwayne Johnson -
The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.
Ben Bernanke -
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.
Shirley Chisholm -
I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
Natalia Vodianova -
All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
Julia Cameron -
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
Douglas Bader