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General George S. Patton7 quotes
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 · 1969Now 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 · 1969I won't have cowards in my army. — General George S. Patton · 1969I 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 · 1969Now, 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 · 1969For 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 · 1969All 7 quotes →Chris McCandless6 quotes
The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences. — Chris McCandless · 2007And just remember if you want something in life, reach out and grab it. — Chris McCandless · 2007Happiness only real when shared. — Chris McCandless · 2007I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. — Chris McCandless · 2007Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Chris McCandless · 2007But 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 · 2007Coach Herman Boone4 quotes
This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000You 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 · 2000We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform and you don't get no blood on my uniform, boy you must be outside your mind! — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Malcolm X4 quotes
We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us! — Malcolm X · 1992Brothers 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 · 1992Because 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 · 1992You are not an American, you are the victim of America! — Malcolm X · 1992Billy Beane3 quotes
How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane · 2011When your enemies make mistakes, don't interrupt 'em. — Billy Beane · 2011I hate losing more than I even want to win. — Billy Beane · 2011Elijah Muhammad2 quotes
I tell you the most dangerous creation in the world in any society is the man with nothing to lose. You do not need 10 such men to change the world. One will do. — Elijah Muhammad · 1992You will be in the public eye. Beware of them cameras. Oh, them cameras are bad as any narcotic. — Elijah Muhammad · 1992Father Cavanaugh2 quotes
Praying is something we do in our time. The answers come in God’s time. — Father Cavanaugh · 1993Son, in 35 years of religious studies, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts: There is a God, and I’m not him. — Father Cavanaugh · 1993Mark Zuckerberg2 quotes
If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They are suing me because for the first time in their lives, things didn't work out the way they were supposed to for them. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010Sir Thomas More2 quotes
Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966When a man takes an oath, he's holding his own self in his own hands like water, and if he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again. — Sir Thomas More · 1966Abraham Lincoln1 quote
A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll...it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and desert and chasm that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp...what's the use of knowing True North? — Abraham Lincoln · 2012Aunt Emma1 quote
Risk is what keeps us young, isn't it, darling? — Aunt Emma · 2013Cleve Jones1 quote
Elections of any kind are fucking bourgeois affectation. — Cleve Jones · 2008Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger1 quote
My whole life, people have been telling me what I could do and couldn't do. I’ve always listed to ’em, believed in what they said. I don’t wanna do that anymore. — Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger · 1993Ernesto Guevara de la Serna1 quote
Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me anymore, at least, I'm not the same me I was. — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna · 2004Five and Dime Manager1 quote
Divorce is an abomination. Marriage is for life. — Five and Dime Manager · 2005Fortune1 quote
In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody except yourself. — Fortune · 1993George S. Patton1 quote
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Joey LaMotta1 quote
If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose. — Joey LaMotta · 1980John Henry1 quote
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 · 2011John Nash1 quote
What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career—the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you. — John Nash · 2001Margaret More1 quote
God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966