Edward Whittemore Quotes

Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?

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• Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Authority
  • Issue
  • Defending

• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  

  William Blake
  • Truth
  • Convincing
  • Defending

• A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Writer
  • Fame
  • Defending

• Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Mediocrity
  • Defending
  • Exhausting

• The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.

  

  Ahmad Shah Massoud
  • Behavior
  • Tolerance
  • Islam

• Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.

  

  Ben Chifley
  • Lost
  • Liberty
  • Defending

• I’m wide awake, I’ll drop you off for saying that, For days and two weeks, It was you who was defending such a lie, Oh what a lie, Was it a lie?

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Saying
  • Lie
  • Awake

• The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight and win as an integral part of the Joint Team. Together with our brothers and sisters in arms, we underwrite the national strategy of defending the Homeland and assuring allies, while dissuading, deterring and defeating enemies.

  

  Norton A. Schwartz
  • Enemies
  • Strategy
  • Defending

• I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Grammy
  • Emmys

• Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

  

  Calvin Seerveld
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Wrestling

• We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Another roof, another proof.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • Proof
  • Roof

• Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.

  

  Harvey Mackay
  • Support
  • Loyalty
  • Employee

• A silver speaks it's own language, does it not?

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Language
  • Own
  • Silver

• Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Feelings

• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Growth
  • Innovation
  • Economic

• I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Anger
  • Disappointment
  • Skiing

• When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

  

  Bill Austin
  • Learn
  • Steps
  • Dancing Lessons

• Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?

  

  Edward Whittemore
  • Defending
  • Mongols