James Mattis Quotes

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

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• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Care
  • Down
  • Planning

• A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Country
  • Laws
  • Vote

• We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Men
  • Home
  • War

• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Hope
  • Beauty
  • Look

• We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • People
  • Way
  • Better

• Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Responsibility
  • Vote
  • Voting

• Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Humanity
  • Intelligence

• I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Way
  • Person
  • Option

• India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Growth
  • India

• I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Always
  • Things
  • Natural

• Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• When you follow your heart's calling, you wind up becoming your most powerful self. You don't need to take power from others if you can tap into your own inner power.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Power

• As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

  

  Christopher Hitchens

• Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, and that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • Problem
  • Forget
  • Memory

• I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Universe
  • Religious
  • Audience

• When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Words

• If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • War
  • Military

• I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

  

  James Mattis