Scott Ritter Quotes

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Scott Ritter

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Actions

• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Father
  • Me

• I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Step

• I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Party
  • Kid
  • Birthday

• We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Family
  • Care
  • Employees

• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Art
  • Experience
  • End

• Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Lesbian
  • Sisterhood

• I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • People
  • Political
  • Friendships

• …the cold deflation of crapula…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Cold

• Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Sick
  • Seduction

• Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.

  

  Ken Liu

• In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • School
  • Kids
  • Homeless

• The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

  

  Bryan Magee
  • World
  • Real
  • Curiosity

• So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Hope

• Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.

  

  Bert Blyleven

• Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

  

  Homer
  • Earth
  • Breathe
  • Creatures

• Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

  

  George Eliot
  • Rocks
  • Resolve
  • Scale

• I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Women
  • Security

• I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people - brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Model

• I do not find that I feel myself to be any different as an English subject than as an American. I have not the vote in either place, so I am not a citizen of either, and have no call to be patriotic. In fact, I do not see how women can ever feel like anything but aliens in whatever country they may live, for they have no part or lot in any, except the part and lot of being taxed and legislated for by men.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • American
  • Patriotic
  • Citizen

• I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • Patriotic
  • Flag
  • Monkey