Leon Uris Quotes

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

Leon Uris

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• Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • News
  • Liberal
  • Rhetoric

• I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Gratitude
  • State
  • Constant

• I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Father
  • Me
  • Popular

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Around
  • Ever
  • Merle Haggard

• Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Children
  • Power
  • Control

• Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Film

• The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Night
  • Down
  • Inventory

• I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Progress

• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Taken

• Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • World
  • Team
  • Win

• I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Think
  • You
  • Audience

• When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

  

  Edmund White
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Love
  • Basketball
  • Size

• I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Country
  • City

• The low dive had set a standard that only middle-aged hooligans could remember and to which they looked back as Mrs Lot at Sodom.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Remember

• 'How about,' she said, 'that you do the logical thing because it’s the logical thing to do?'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • She

• You are the oveja negre, no? The black sheep?

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Black

• I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

  

  Nicole Krauss
  • Life
  • World
  • Ready

• Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • People
  • Band

• I'm kind of well-known in Holland, which is nice. But in Holland, we're down to earth; there are no paparazzi in my garden and no autograph hunters at the door. We have 'Strictly Come Dancing,' but I've not been asked.

  

  Marianne Vos
  • Earth
  • Nice
  • Door

• What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Soldier

• When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Sorry

• A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Soldier