Quotes

Here are some famous and not so famous quotes that I have found. Give you some insight into my thinking.

"Goddamn it, you'll never get a Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole. Follow me!" - Lt. Col. Henry P. Crow, USMC, 1943

 

"It's alright to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back." - Mick Jagger

 

"Just do it!" - Nike

 

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger." - Nietzsche

 

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller

 

"You don't hurt'em if you don't hit'em." - LT General B. Puller, USMC

 

"That which hurts, also instructs." - Ben Franklin

 

"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want." - Jimi Hendrix

 

"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power." - P. J. O'Rourke

 

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." - Indira Gandhi

 

"Sex is like pizza. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good." - unknown

 

"You know there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they all don't bring you lasagna at work. Most of them just cheat on you." - Silent Bob "Clerks"

 

"All's fair in love and war."  - Francis Edwards

 

"The price of victory is hard fighting." - Reuben Jenkins

 

"The only reason for the existence of the soldier is to defend the principles that civilian society represents." - Georges Clemenceau

 

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

 

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stewart Mills

 

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine

 

"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville

 

"You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth, and the amusing thing about it is that they are." - Father Kevin Keaney, 1st Marine Division Chaplain, Korean War

 

"A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind." - Aral Vorkosigan

 

"It used to be, win their hearts and mind, now it's, two in the heart and one in the head." - Marine Lance Corporal in Iraq

 

"Sometimes a guy will go down, and I'll let him scream a bit to destroy the  morale of his buddies...then I'll use a second shot." - Marine Corporal as quoted in LA Times 18 April 2004

 

"Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." - Frank Zappa

 

"A man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali