David Farragut Quotes

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I'm not a Republican.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Republican

• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Ugly
  • Face

• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Travel

• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Done

• If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • You
  • Hate

• It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Play
  • Difficult
  • Losing

• The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Best
  • Need
  • Prove

• The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Black
  • Poetry
  • Gay

• The United States construction industry is ready to digest this large increase in capacity. Regions with a vibrant economic base dominate the location of plant expansions and the related escalation in private, commercial, and public infrastructure construction will require additional materials.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Economic
  • Plant
  • Industry

• I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Performance
  • Production
  • Opposite

• There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Labor
  • Fleece

• If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Fear
  • Morality
  • Selfishness

• The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Drive
  • Origin

• J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.

  

  Bill Cowher
  • Defense
  • Offense
  • Inspires

• I feel there's a halo around me, a constant sunshine wherever I go.

  

  Vicky Kaushal
  • Feel
  • Sunshine
  • Halo

• I believe that women are human beings. That belief is not diametrically opposed to thinking that men are human beings, and that if one human being has the opportunity to be kind to another, she should do so.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Women
  • Belief
  • Human Beings

• Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then in order properly to satisfy our curiosity we will inevitably rely on one or more of them. So, either we squelch our curiosity or we will have to fall into the circularity or regress to which the skeptic objects.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Trust
  • Wonder
  • Satisfy

• The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

  

  David Farragut
  • Defense
  • Guns
  • Directed