James G. Stavridis Quotes
You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
James G. Stavridis
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
Baldwin Spencer
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
Barbara Kingsolver
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
Saint Ignatius
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
Adam Davidson
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
Taryn Manning
Boomkat
I never want any problems with anybody in this world.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?
Bonnie Hunt
You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.
John O. Brennan
Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.
Allan Sherman
There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.
Jill Clayburgh
You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
James G. Stavridis