Quotes of: Military-bases Keyword

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

Virginia Postrel

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.

Wesley Clark

There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.

Marianne Williamson

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.

Hercules of the Revolution: A Novel Based on the Life of Peter Francisco

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

The Marriage Plot

Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

Laura Chinchilla

We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for thi...

Raul Grijalva

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own ...

Noam Chomsky

So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and th...

Nigel Lythgoe

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

Pope Theodoros II

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

Rickey Henderson

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

Paul Davies

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.

Joaquin Andujar

Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama ...

Elliott Abrams

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based...

Joyce Giraud

People falling in love for one reason may fall out of love due to another reason. However, if faith or trust is the basis of love, it does not break easily. Often people use all their reasoning to understand each other and even live together for year...

Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Centering our thoughts on God begins with what I like to call discovery. That is, when we discover a great truth about God, we begin to meditate on that truth until it captivates our whole thinking process. That in turn will lead to worship. If worsh...

Our Awesome God