General Von Steuben Quotes & Sayings

So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justify experiments on nonhuman animals we have to ask ourselves whether we are also prepared to allow experiments on human infants and retarded adults; and if we make a distinction between animals and these humans, on what basis can we do it, other than a bare-faced - and morally indefensible - preference for members of our own species? — Peter Singer

I want my time spent running to serve as a reward. — Frank Shorter

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own. — Madeleine L'Engle

We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of person, strong, determined, extroverted, to be able to be willful, to exercise willpower. Not so. We all have it and just don't know how to use it. — Rosemary Altea

My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle ... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. — Chesty Puller

I see the world ... and call it by what I feel it should be, not by what others who in their dull reveries think it is. — Kathleen Kent

I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy. — Richard Thaler

Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources. — Robert Mugabe

At the birth of a new world, there will be always pain. — Alex London

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots. — Brigitte Bardot

I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am. — John Congleton

I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers? — Richard Dawkins

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. — J.K. Rowling

It's a good thing my parents named me Jon because that's what everyone calls me. — Jon Foreman