Leon Uris Quotes

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

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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

• Most reporters I've spoken with want very badly to understand what is happening to her, but the 'why' is really very unimportant. That is just not the point of the show. The journey is how she will deal with this situation, and how it will change her life.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • Life
  • Why
  • She

• I don't represent corporations.

  

  Charlie Melancon

• According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch--an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still "like us.

  

  Serge Daney
  • Dream
  • Enemy
  • Soldier

• The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Moral

• No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Women
  • Positive
  • Equality

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

  

  Leon Uris
  • Soldier