James G. Stavridis Quotes
I knew early I wanted to follow my father into the military. He did a full 30-year career and retired as a full colonel in the Marines after graduating from Allentown H.S. and later from Cornell University.James G. Stavridis
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We shred every day.
Fawn Hall -
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris Murdoch -
So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Madame de Stael -
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
Majel Barrett
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
Ram Charan -
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Salman Rushdie -
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra -
No one needs anything; they have to want it.
Edgardo Osorio -
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
Fatos Nano -
I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
Dan Hill
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
Lara Spencer -
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
Vernon Howard -
I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
Sam Smith -
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo -
Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
Zac Posen
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian -
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
Jack Roy -
Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
Carlos Mesa -
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
Og Mandino -
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
Iain McGilchrist -
I knew early I wanted to follow my father into the military. He did a full 30-year career and retired as a full colonel in the Marines after graduating from Allentown H.S. and later from Cornell University.
James G. Stavridis