James Mattis Quotes

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

James Mattis

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• I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Work
  • America
  • Weird

• Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Islam

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • You
  • Know

• I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Mad

• Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Red
  • Wine

• A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat. Ramrobots had been first visitors to all the settled worlds. The interstellar ramscoop robots, with an unrestricted fuel supply culled from interstellar hydrogen, could travel between stars at speeds approaching that of light.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Light
  • Travel

• Es ist der Menschheit eigen, dass sie sich über die Menschheit erheben muss.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• You knowTaken out of context I mustSeem so strange.

  

  Ani DiFranco

• Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Trust
  • Intelligent

• Giving kids the chance to see live theatre should not just be free, it should be compulsory.

  

  David Harewood
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Free

• I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Up
  • Smart

• The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.

  

  Duncan Jones

• We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

  

  Kristi Noem
  • Change
  • Here
  • Washington

• We think Medicare Advantage is a key part of healthcare and is bringing some of the innovation - I think a lot of the innovation - back to that marketplace for seniors.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Innovation
  • Health care

• Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

  

  Andrew Card
  • World
  • Country

• I love sushi. Once on Valentine's Day, someone I was dating rocked up at the airport to pick me up with a bag of salmon because I love it so much.

  

  Ella McMahon
  • Up
  • Dating

• Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Age
  • Revenge

• Everything is always in trouble at the frontier. Any science that is not in this kind of trouble is dead.

  

  Allan Sandage
  • Science
  • Trouble
  • Frontier

• We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

  

  James Mattis