Eric Shinseki Quotes

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

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• I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Training
  • Japanese
  • Watch

• My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Myself
  • New
  • Breakfast

• Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Black
  • Humor
  • Sarcastic

• The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Good
  • Power
  • Evil

• I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Happy
  • Creative
  • Working

• You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Feeling
  • Control
  • Feelings

• Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Long
  • Police

• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

  

  Dale E. Turner
  • Respect

• Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Ideas
  • Willingness

• I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.

  

  R.A. Dickey
  • Hope
  • Deep
  • Motivated

• Only longing can fill with more of itself.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Chaos
  • Longing

• Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

  

  T.A. Barron
  • Forever
  • Found
  • Answers

• I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Hours

• Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Life
  • Country
  • May

• I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

  

  Eric Shinseki
  • Soldiers
  • Criticize
  • Bleeding