H. R. McMaster Quotes
It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
Quotes to Explore
-
My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
-
Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
-
My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
-
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
-
Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
-
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
-
'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
-
If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
-
It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
-
I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
-
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
-
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
-
I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
-
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
-
Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
-
I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
-
I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
-
If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
-
A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
-
You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.
-
War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.
-
I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.
-
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.
-
It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
