Byron Dorgan Quotes

When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.

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• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Book
  • Together
  • Simple

• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Halloween

• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Tangled

• I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Music
  • Art
  • Reading

• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Better
  • Did
  • Ohio

• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  

  Oliver North
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • Win

• Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Work
  • Think
  • Training

• I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Up
  • Know
  • Never

• For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Character
  • True
  • Change

• When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Same

• I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Goal

• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Create

• If ballots won't work, bullets will.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Work
  • Will
  • Bullets

• A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Poverty
  • Saint
  • Contagion

• For men, after a certain age, it gets hard to make new friends.

  

  Scott Foley
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Age

• I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.

  

  Claire Foy
  • People
  • Country

• My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Good
  • Energy

• Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Kids

• When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country