James G. Stavridis Quotes

The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.

James G. Stavridis

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• They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Effort
  • Decree
  • Regulator

• My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

  

  Iman
  • Faith
  • Daughter
  • Flower

• Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Bad
  • Stronger
  • Seasons

• I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • May
  • Friends
  • Child

• Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happen

• You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Down

• Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Up
  • Best
  • Nerves

• I am so inspired by new media.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Inspired
  • Media

• I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Money
  • True
  • Dream

• I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Enjoy
  • Playing

• I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Trying
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• Dum novus errat amor, vires sibi colligat usu:Si bene nutrieris, tempore firmus erit.Quem taurum metuis, vitulum mulcere solebas:Sub qua nunc recubas arbore, virga fuit:Nascitur exiguus, sed opes adquirit eundo,Quaque venit, multas accipit amnis aquas.

  

  Ovid

• In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Thinking
  • Society

• The only possible solution which will preserve Germany’s honor and Germany’s interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.

  

  Karl Marx
  • War
  • Honor

• I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

  

  Umberto Eco

• Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • People
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • Why
  • Power

• Far and few, far and few,Are the lands where the Jumblies live;Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,And they went to sea in a Sieve.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Live
  • Sea
  • Green

• Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Men
  • Power
  • Wish

• I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.

  

  Amber Valletta
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Today

• One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. (11 September 1941)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Sleep
  • September

• Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Society
  • Eye
  • Politics

• The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.

  

  James G. Stavridis