John Abizaid Quotes

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

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• 'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • High
  • Plateau

• My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Boy

• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Enjoy

• A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Name
  • Marshall

• 'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • Love
  • Character

• It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Difficult
  • Realize
  • Governor

• Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Important
  • Health

• In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Try
  • Old

• One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Long
  • Said
  • Blow

• I view myself as a dealmaker.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Myself
  • View

• There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Truth
  • Understand
  • Stars

• I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Trying

• It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.

  

  Maimonides
  • May
  • True
  • Problems

• I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Lost

• In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;While words of learned length, and thundering soundAmazed the gazing rustics ranged around;And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,That one small head could carry all he knew.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Words
  • Small
  • Wonder

• They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Book

• Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Done

• The biggest challenge in making movies, boring but true answer is money - you never have enough, so everything gets bootstrapped to death! I learned not only how to be better filmmakers because of it but better janitors, better drivers and better negotiators with cops who wanted to shut me down. You have to get creative.

  

  Negin Farsad
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Creative

• We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • God
  • Soul

• Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • World
  • Single

• As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

  

  John Abizaid