Abizaid General Quotes & Sayings

He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it was but it was crap. He played it on the team bus too, and all the boys hated it. Until one night it got chucked away. If he's still wondering who threw that tape off the bus, it was me. So maybe he was right and I'm not to be trusted ... — Gordon Strachan

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism. — Herbie Hancock

Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire. — Yasunari Kawabata

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different. — Estelle Parsons

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation. — Saib Tabrizi

It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things. — Don Williams

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When God gets in the middle of life, evil becomes good. — Max Lucado

The internet makes everything not enough. — Alec Sulkin

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally. — Carine Roitfeld

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale. — Noam Chomsky