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War6 quotes

Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969 Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you. — Suetonius · 52 Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. — General George S. Patton · 1969 I won't have cowards in my army. — General George S. Patton · 1969 I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose! — General George S. Patton · 1969 Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. — General George S. Patton · 1969

World War II5 quotes

Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969 Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969 I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose! — General George S. Patton · 1969 Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II?" you won't have to say, "Well...I shoveled shit in Louisiana." — General George S. Patton · 1969 Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. — General George S. Patton · 1969

Happiness4 quotes

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by: a good tavern or inn. — Samuel Johnson · 1776 Happiness only real when shared. — Chris McCandless · 2007 That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. — Samuel Johnson · 1784 But you're wrong if you think the joy of life comes principally from human relationships. God's placed it all around us. It's in everything, in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at those things. — Chris McCandless · 2007

Death3 quotes

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson · 1777 Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966 Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things. — Marcel Duchamp

Friendship3 quotes

One soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. — Samuel Johnson · 1784 We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. — Samuel Johnson · 1777

Patience3 quotes

Praying is something we do in our time. The answers come in God’s time. — Father Cavanaugh · 1993 Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, Time. — Pericles · 100 The artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop. — Auguste Rodin

Winning3 quotes

I hate losing more than I even want to win. — Billy Beane · 2011 If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose. — Joey LaMotta · 1980 Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. — General George S. Patton · 1969

Winning and losing3 quotes

Aggression2 quotes

You got anger, that's good you're gonna need it son. You got aggression that's even better, you're gonna need that, too. But any little two-year-old child can throw a fit! Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection! — Coach Herman Boone · 2000 I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose! — General George S. Patton · 1969

American character2 quotes

Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969 Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. — General George S. Patton · 1969

Americans2 quotes

Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969 I am willing to love all mankind, except an American. — Samuel Johnson · 1778

Art2 quotes

In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto Giacometti The artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop. — Auguste Rodin

Authoritarianism2 quotes

This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000 Let them hate, so long as they fear. — Caligula

Black experience2 quotes

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us! — Malcolm X · 1992 You are not an American, you are the victim of America! — Malcolm X · 1992

Business2 quotes

If you hire only those people whom you understand, the company will never get better people than you are. — Soichiro Honda · 1982 Politics grease the wheels of business. — R.H. Tawney · 1958

Education2 quotes

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle Learning is an ornament in prosperity, and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle

Enemies2 quotes

To break a treaty is contempt for the gods. But to outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious-but profitable and sweet. — Plutarch · 100 When your enemies make mistakes, don't interrupt 'em. — Billy Beane · 2011

Hate2 quotes

Let them hate, so long as they fear. — Caligula It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. — Tacitus · 56

Human nature2 quotes

It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. — Tacitus · 56 We would all be idle if we could. — Samuel Johnson · 1776

Innovation2 quotes

If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010 I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy. — John Henry · 2011

Marriage2 quotes

Divorce is an abomination. Marriage is for life. — Five and Dime Manager · 2005 It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilized society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together. — Samuel Johnson · 1772

Music2 quotes

If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. — Charlie Parker · 1955 Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1786

Politics2 quotes

Elections of any kind are fucking bourgeois affectation. — Cleve Jones · 2008 Politics grease the wheels of business. — R.H. Tawney · 1958

Race relations2 quotes

Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone, he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone, he's created destruction. So I charge him. — Malcolm X · 1992 Because of the spiritual rebirth which I was blessed to undergo as a result of my pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca, I no longer subscribe to sweeping indictments of one race. I intend to be very careful not to sentence anyone who has not been proven guilty. I'm not a racist and do not subscribe to any of the tenets of racism. In all honesty and sincerity it can be stated that I wish nothing but freedom, justice and equality: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people. Now my first concern, of course, is with the group to which I belong, for we, more than any others, are deprived of our inalienable rights. But I believe the true practice of Islam can remove the cancer of racism from the hearts and the souls of all Americans. — Malcolm X · 1992

Scotland2 quotes

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young. — Samuel Johnson · 1772 The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England! — Samuel Johnson · 1763

Success2 quotes

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1568 The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people. — George Bernard Shaw · 1949

The human condition2 quotes

Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966 For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph—a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning, that all glory is fleeting. — General George S. Patton · 1969

The past2 quotes

The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written. — Henry Kissinger · 1972 That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present. — Sydney Smith · 1845

Value of education2 quotes

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle Learning is an ornament in prosperity, and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle

Victory2 quotes

I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar · 46 BC One more such victory over the Romans and we are lost. — Pyrrhus · 279 BC

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