Mac Thornberry Quotes
The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
Quotes to Explore
-
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
-
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
-
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
-
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
-
I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
-
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
-
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
-
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
-
I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
-
If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
-
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
-
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
-
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
-
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
-
Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
-
'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
-
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
-
I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
-
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.
-
First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
-
But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.
-
There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
-
The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
