Heroes And Generals Quotes & Sayings

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences. — Giles Foden

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain. — Brigham Young

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security. — Ben Nelson

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there. — Peter McWilliams

Only bad generals need heroes. — Bertolt Brecht

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. — Thomas Mann

A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance. — L. Ron Hubbard

The best definition of profit I've ever heard is that it is the applause you get for satisfying your customers and creating a motivating environment for your people. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

Vivas to those who have fail'd!
And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!
And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known! — Walt Whitman

Jesus commands us to go - but we go the other way. — Keith Green

We learn so that we may succeed, and that goes for anything in life, including the arts. It's a falsity that the moment we earn money or wish to earn money for our creations that it ceases to become art. — Karina Halle

It is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation. — Jean Baudrillard

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism. — Fulton J. Sheen