Collombey Quotes & Sayings

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action — Woodrow Wilson

The purpose of the bayonet training, Sergeant Gerheim explains, is to awaken our killer instincts. The killer instinct will make us fearless and aggressive, like animals. If the meek ever inherit the earth the strong will take it away from them. The weak exist to be devoured by the strong. Every Marine must pack his own gear. Every Marine must be the instrument of his own salvation. It's hard, but there it is. — Gustav Hasford

It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect world, and things don't always work out. But you've just got to work hard, and you can't take things for granted. — Stephen Colletti

clinging to modesty in the age of the Others is like sacrificing a goat to make it rain. — Rick Yancey

Sikhism was then, as Muhammadanism
in the seventh and eighth centuries, and
Wahabeeism in the present, a religion of the sword, and the new converts appeared as ready to fight with each other as with the common enemy against whom
alone they ever united. — Lepel Henry Griffin

The person who has the guts to ask themselves 'Why?' at least once a week, and be totally honest with themselves about the answer, is already twenty steps ahead of their smarter, more experienced rival. — Mark Bouris

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. — William Osler

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them! — Calvin Coolidge

He was not in love yet, but he realized that he was an attractive quantity to women, and that the fact of a woman caring for him and wanting to live with him was not simply a divine miracle. — Ernest Hemingway,

Faces don't freeze like that unless pushed to breaking, where death itself becomes the kindness. — Karen Marie Moning

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? — Herman Melville

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable. — Charles Dickens

I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on. — David Guetta

Baseball has been the greatest things in my life, but the cameras and the media surrounding baseball have not been fun. It's unnecessary. How many times do they see me stretch? How many times do they see me walk? It is a big concern. If it affected the team in a negative way, I don't know what I would do. — Ichiro Suzuki

The right ending is an open door you can't see too far out of. It can mean exactly the opposite of what you are thinking. — Michael Ondaatje