Francis Drake Quotes

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Francis Drake

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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

Ralph Boston
- Think
- Team
- Win
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

Calvin Trillin
- Family
- Hands
- Capitalism
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

Yanis Varoufakis
- Money
- Military
- Year
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

Warren Buffett
- You
- Financial
- Ability
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

Olivia Thirlby
- Work
- Attention
- Ideas
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Quintilian
- Evil
- Broken
- Habits