John Abizaid Quotes

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time, people talk and they tell us what they know.

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• My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Black
  • Me
  • Capitalist

• AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Solution

• Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Long
  • Influence
  • Demons

• It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Woman
  • Drink
  • Her

• Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Great
  • Man
  • Beginning

• When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • American
  • First
  • India

• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Strong

• I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Life
  • Country
  • Regret

• I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Favourite

• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Work
  • Money
  • Want

• I like to show that I'm real.

  

  Maluma
  • Real
  • Like
  • Show

• Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Happiness

• I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Celebrity
  • Celebrities

• Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Good
  • Fall
  • Fly

• I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Death

• Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • King

• But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • World
  • Heart
  • Recovery

• When people ask me, 'Are you a singer?' I say, 'No, I'm not a 'singer' - but I love the craft of singing,' going in and finding out what that means or why the hell I'm singing in the first place. My thing is really the craft of it.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • People
  • Why
  • Singing

• I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • People
  • Song
  • Talking

• Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time, people talk and they tell us what they know.

  

  John Abizaid
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