Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.Norman Schwarzkopf
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
M. H. Abrams -
Each color lives by its mysterious life.
Wassily Kandinsky -
It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
Fat Joe -
I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
Zoey Deutch -
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O'Connor -
Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.
Maggie Stiefvater
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
Jack Herer -
My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
Hank Haney -
There are different ways that people feel like it should be done. Any way that you can add a player -- I don't care if it's a trade, the draft, free agency -- I want to be aggressive. Free agency is a place where you make fewer mistakes because you're not trying to project somebody from a college environment to the pros. You've got somebody that has already played up here and been successful.
Joe Gibbs -
It did help. I didn't have to think about defense. I felt good today. I felt strong in my last at-bat.
Gary Sheffield -
She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.
Laini Taylor -
I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.
Zach Condon
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
Walt Disney -
The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
William Penn -
Home is a place from which you can draw strength.
Wendy Starland -
The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
Blaise Pascal -
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
Natasha Trethewey
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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
William Hazlitt -
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
Norman Schwarzkopf