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

• On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Road
  • Television
  • Prejudice

• 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

• Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Gods
  • Abundance
  • Provision

• Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Global

• If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Change
  • Conflict
  • Global

• The phrase "global citizen" always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a global citizen is the only way we can talk about participating in globalization without feeling like assholes.

  

  Anne Elizabeth Moore
  • Citizen
  • Global
  • Participating

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

  

  Rick Atkinson
  • Systems
  • Global
  • Battalions