Ernie Pyle Quotes

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

Ernie Pyle

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• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Enough
  • Retirement
  • Saving

• It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Revolution

• When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Fear

• Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • People
  • True
  • Jealousy

• If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Taken
  • Voice
  • See

• about Fruit of the Loom What does fruit got to do with underbritches? I guess it's to remind us when we take them down we go, 'Oh, I should've eaten more fruit today. I guess.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Today

• Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not 'evil' or 'immoral,' it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Money
  • Together
  • Evil

• I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

  

  James Carville
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Sorry

• We are very committed to highlighting women succeeding in entrepreneurship or technology.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Women
  • Technology

• I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Good
  • Friends

• If you can't love who you are now, you can't get to the place you want to be.

  

  Chrissy Metz

• Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Up
  • Growing

• It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • People
  • Time

• My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • People
  • Life
  • Opportunity

• In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Power
  • Direction
  • Tyranny

• Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Piano

• If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• [The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.

  

  Morris Kline
  • Understanding
  • Teacher
  • Students

• Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Understanding
  • Thoughts
  • Harmony