Quotes of: Washington-post Keyword

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Candace Parker

I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.

Candace Parker

Flirting all starts with eye contact! You can tell a girl is into you if she's across the room and still making eye contact with you.

Chandler Parsons

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

Chris Paul

I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.

Chris Paul

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Chesley Sullenberger

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

Claus von Stauffenberg

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

Horatio Nelson

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

Horatio Nelson

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.

Hyman G. Rickover

Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

Ian Allison

I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

Ira Glass

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Isoroku Yamamoto

You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.

Isoroku Yamamoto

I felt that justice had been served and that the world was, in some way, a better place for all of us.

James F. Amos

Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

John Abizaid

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

John R. Allen

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.

John Buford

I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.

John Buford

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

James Cook