Bacevich Age Quotes & Sayings

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum. — Elton John

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen. — Damon Hill

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? — Pierre Loti

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent. — Luther Burbank

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of which
her beauty was a part. — Edith Wharton

It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life
novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature. — Charles Webster Leadbeater

as the Age of Bush gave way to the Era of Obama, little of substance changed. That was the greatest irony of all. — Andrew J. Bacevich

I know what I do not know. — Socrates

You have to first believe in what you are, in what you can do, in what you say before you can make anybody believe in you. — Rita Zahara