Tommy Franks Quotes

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

Tommy Franks

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• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Think
  • Race

• I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Friends
  • College
  • Forever

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Happy
  • Nervous
  • Eat

• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Blood
  • Keep
  • Wash

• I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!

  

  Dana Carvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Money

• My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Led

• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mother
  • Free

• Solutions: (...) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Understanding
  • Sex

• And what is friendship but a name,A charm that lulls to sleep,A shade that follows wealth or fame,And leaves the wretch to weep?

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Sleep
  • Friendship

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • God
  • Night
  • Light

• So don't be fooled, so don't get lied to Love was always cruel And don't act strange, don't be a stranger It happened to me, now it's happening to you But if you'd take that train underwater Then we could talk it through

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Soul

• My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

  

  Benjamin Todd Jealous
  • People
  • World
  • American

• I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Bones

• There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Home
  • Son

• Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.

  

  Gary DeMar
  • Death
  • Behavior
  • Behinds

• No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

  

  Tommy Franks
  • War
  • Hate
  • Soldier