James Mattis Quotes

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

James Mattis

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• Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Learn

• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Stop
  • Beginning

• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Succeed
  • Russian

• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • Mountain
  • Battle

• We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Poor
  • Leave
  • Behind

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Parents
  • Comedy
  • Cool

• There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Politics
  • Radio
  • Getting

• Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Horrible
  • Awake
  • Bathroom

• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Become
  • Gravity

• I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • Art
  • Think

• Shun all vice, especially card playing.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Playing
  • Vice
  • Shun

• I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Game
  • Man
  • Rock

• My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Positive
  • Conversation

• I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Mind
  • Together

• Being a teenager is hard.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Being
  • Teenager
  • Being A Teenager

• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Respect
  • Joy
  • Feel

• In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Culture

• As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Energy
  • Spiritual
  • Path

• Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Ability
  • Wells

• I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Knowledge

• The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

  

  Carol Gilligan
  • Different
  • Women
  • Stop

• The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

  

  James Mattis
  • American
  • Air
  • Sun