Counselor Jefe Quotes & Sayings

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures. — Ernest Hemingway,

At the prosecution table, Flagler gave me his Ivy League snicker. If I wanted, I could dangle him out the window by his ankles. But then, I was picking up penalties for late hits while he was singing tenor with the Whiffenpoofs. Okay, so I'm not Yale Law Review, but I'm proud of my diploma. University of Miami. Night division. Top half of the bottom third of my class. — Paul Levine

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices. — Tariq Ramadan

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. — William Hazlitt

I teach my sons that there are really only three rules to being a good man. The first rule is to fish often. And by fish, I mean find the quiet times to fish around in your minds for what is most important. The second rule is to protect everyone smaller than them. This means physically smaller, and in all other ways ... protect the more vulnerable. The third rule states that if something is truly important to you, then you should prove it. You say you would lay your life down for someone, but will you give them the busiest five minutes of your day, if they need it? — Spuds Crawford

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me. — Alessandro Nivola

When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others. — Bryant McGill

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. — Lao-Tzu

If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight. — Zach Wamp

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. — Meryl Streep

When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring. — Johnny Mathis

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. — Allan Massie