Quotes of: Military-training Keyword

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard ...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscienc...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and pu...

Sakyong Mipham

Gordie: Alright, alright, Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy? Vern: If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy-Pez. Cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it. Teddy: Goofy's a dog. He's definitely a...

Stand by Me

[last lines] Hiccup: [narrating] This is Berk. A bit trampled and busted and covered in ice, but it's home. It's our home. Those who attacked us are relentless and crazy, but those who stopped them - oh-h-h-h-h, even more so! We may be small in numbe...

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Hiccup: [follows Valka through the cave] Uh, hold-hold on! Wait just a minute! Valka: This way! Hiccup: Come back here! Valka: Come! Hiccup: You can't just say something like that and run off! You're my MOTHER? I mean, what the...? Do you... do you g...

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Gobber: [Slapping a thick book on the table] The Dragon Manual. Everything we know about every dragon we know of. [Thunder rumbles] Gobber: No attacks tonight. Study up. Tuffnut: Wait, you mean *read*? Ruffnut: While we're still alive? Snotlout: Why ...

How to Train Your Dragon

Isabelle: [last lines; at the part Isabelle smiles as she watches Hugo doing magic tricks, she sits and starts writing in her notebook] [voice over] Isabelle: Once upon a time, I met a boy named Hugo Cabret. He lived in a train station. Why did he li...

Hugo

Del: [speaking to self while sitting in the car while it snows] Well Marie, once again my dear, you where as right as rain. I am, with out a doubt, the biggest pain in the butt that ever came down the pike. I meet someone whose company I really enjoy...

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Del: [sitting outside the motel cafe after finding out they've been robbed] You know I've been thinking. What we're dealing with here is a small-time crook. He didn't take the credit cards, right? So we charge our way home. What kind of plastic do yo...

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Alonzo: Today's a training day, Officer Hoyt. Show you around, give you a taste of the business. I got 38 cases pending trial, 63 in active investigations, another 250 on the log I can't clear. I supervise five officers. That's five different persona...

Training Day

[Clara has pulled the train's whistle, causing Doc to look back towards the cab] Clara Clayton: [Waves] Emmett! Doc: Clara! Clara Clayton: I love you! Marty McFly: [Into walkie talkie] Doc! Doc, what's happening? Doc: [Into walkie talkie] It's Clara,...

Back to the Future Part III

I wanted to pull away, remind him that I was a big girl, a highly trained operative, a spy - that I'd been training for this mission my entire life, and I wasn't going to be left on the sidelines. But in the dim space with Zach pressed tightly agains...

Ally Carter

Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison.

Chasing Trains

My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Dune Messiah

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.

Dune

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

She's a skilled and swift fight, and I know she'll pass on her training on to you.

The Forgotten Warrior

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

Black Hawk Down

I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all those musical movies and really knew that I wanted to be a performer.

Nikki Blonsky