James Mattis Quotes

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Been
  • Destination

• Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Behind

• I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Different
  • Important
  • Day

• If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • You
  • Reading

• To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Important
  • Art

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Class is more important than a game.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Important
  • Game
  • Class

• It is important not to trust people too much.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Important
  • Trust

• I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Believe
  • Quality
  • Challenge

• I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Important
  • Reflection
  • Perfection

• Once you get into the NFL, it doesn't matter what draft pick you are, what round you are, if you're undrafted or not. It's football time again. The draft, all of that doesn't matter anymore.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Time
  • Football

• When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • People
  • High

• The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

  

  Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club
  • Music
  • Age

• If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page.

  

  Mark Waid

• The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

  

  James Mattis
  • Important