John T. Flynn Quotes

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

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• Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Content
  • Fair
  • Material

• I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Man
  • Food
  • Amazing

• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Man
  • Opinion
  • Woman

• My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Future
  • Career
  • Past

• I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Want
  • Media
  • Gossip

• Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Love
  • Love Yourself

• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Song
  • Films
  • Advertising

• I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Why
  • Help
  • Mistakes

• I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Happy
  • Never
  • Childhood

• I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Bike
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Win
  • Victory

• I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Decision
  • Made
  • Radio

• I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • God
  • Mountain

• I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful.

  

  Dee Wallace
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Energy

• Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Children
  • Humans
  • Rights

• Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.

  

  Kevin McCloud
  • House
  • Opportunity
  • Car

• Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.

  

  Mark Kennedy
  • America
  • War
  • Learning

• The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

  

  John T. Flynn
  • Real
  • War
  • Military