Quotes of: Johns-hopkins Keyword

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

What It is Like to Go to War

Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

What It is Like to Go to War

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

Burton Cummings

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

David Petraeus

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

Edie Brickell

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

James F. Amos

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Linus Pauling

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.

Henry Mintzberg

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

Lincoln Chafee

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

John Sergeant Wise

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.

John Sergeant Wise

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Joshua Chamberlain

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

Joshua Chamberlain

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Nouriel Roubini

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

Oliver North

I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

Oliver North

I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

Oliver North

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

Oliver North

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Asteptarea ne da iluzia ca facem ceva asteptand, cand, de fapt, nu facem altceva decat sa murim suportabil, putin cate putin…

Octavian Paler

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.

Otis Rush