Rick Atkinson Quotes

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

Rick Atkinson

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• You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Help
  • Woman
  • Fly

• Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Together
  • Year

• Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Children
  • True

• Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.

  

  Imran Amed
  • School
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Loved
  • Gym
  • Boxing

• I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Today
  • Difference

• I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.

  

  Connor Jessup
  • Survival

• One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• He's a rat. That's not true. I'm just concerned about my son.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • True
  • Son
  • Rat

• We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

  

  Arthur Dove
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Ourselves

• Donald Trump represents the same rigged system that he claims he's going to change.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Change
  • Donald Trump
  • Rigged system

• Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

  

  Stephanie Klein
  • People
  • Enough
  • Generations

• D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Hollywood
  • Ugly People

• As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.

  

  David Benatar
  • Enough
  • Lucky
  • Particularly

• One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Important
  • Taken
  • Enjoyment

• When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Ground
  • Grave
  • Tramp

• The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Different
  • Think
  • Question

• Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

  

  Rick Atkinson
  • Systems
  • Global
  • Battalions