Peter Pace Quotes

I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts... I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexuality.

Peter Pace

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• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Success
  • Democracy

• It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Long
  • Done
  • Why

• You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Travel
  • Write

• I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Got
  • Nephews
  • Nieces

• I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Church
  • Spiritual

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(

  

  Kate DiCamillo

• Most people are even less original in their dreaming than in their waking life; their dreams are more monotonous than their thoughts and oddly enough, more literary.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Life
  • Thoughts

• 17) No technique works if it isn't used.

  

  Larry Niven

• He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

  

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

• The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

  

  Ellen Key
  • War
  • Humanity

• Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Men
  • History
  • Planning

• I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.

  

  Brody Jenner
  • People
  • Great
  • Reality

• But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Vision

• I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo
  • Mind
  • English
  • Basketball

• Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • People
  • Age
  • Feeling

• The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Country
  • Truth

• It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors.

  

  Chesley Sullenberger
  • Experience
  • Together

• What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plant
  • Return
  • Psychedelic

• I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts... I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexuality.

  

  Peter Pace