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War5 quotes
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — 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 · 1969Americans 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 · 1969World War II5 quotes
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Now, 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 · 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 · 1969Americans 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 · 1969Winning3 quotes
I hate losing more than I even want to win. — Billy Beane · 2011If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose. — Joey LaMotta · 1980Americans 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 · 1969Winning and losing3 quotes
I hate losing more than I even want to win. — Billy Beane · 2011If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose. — Joey LaMotta · 1980Americans 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 · 1969Aggression2 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 · 2000I 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 · 1969American character2 quotes
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Americans 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 · 1969Black experience2 quotes
We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us! — Malcolm X · 1992You are not an American, you are the victim of America! — Malcolm X · 1992Happiness2 quotes
Happiness only real when shared. — 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 · 2007Innovation2 quotes
If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010I 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 · 2011Race 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 · 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 · 1992The human condition2 quotes
Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966For 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 · 1969Americans1 quote
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Appetite for fame1 quote
You will be in the public eye. Beware of them cameras. Oh, them cameras are bad as any narcotic. — Elijah Muhammad · 1992Authoritarianism1 quote
This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Authority1 quote
This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Baseball1 quote
How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane · 2011Believing in oneself1 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 · 1993Changing the world1 quote
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 · 1992Competitiveness1 quote
I hate losing more than I even want to win. — Billy Beane · 2011Controlling one's anger1 quote
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 · 2000Cowards1 quote
I won't have cowards in my army. — General George S. Patton · 1969Death1 quote
Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966Democracy1 quote
Elections of any kind are fucking bourgeois affectation. — Cleve Jones · 2008Divorce1 quote
Divorce is an abomination. Marriage is for life. — Five and Dime Manager · 2005Dying for one's country1 quote
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 · 1969Effects of travel1 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 · 2004Elections1 quote
Elections of any kind are fucking bourgeois affectation. — Cleve Jones · 2008Enemies1 quote
When your enemies make mistakes, don't interrupt 'em. — Billy Beane · 2011Experiences1 quote
The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences. — Chris McCandless · 2007Fame1 quote
You will be in the public eye. Beware of them cameras. Oh, them cameras are bad as any narcotic. — Elijah Muhammad · 1992