Jarheads Marines Quotes & Sayings

I have often remarked in the United States that it is not easy to make a man understand that his presence may be dispensed with; hints will not always suffice to shake him off. I contradict an American at every word he says, to show him that his conversation bores me; he instantly labors with fresh pertinacity to convince me; I preserve a dogged silence, and he thinks I am meditating deeply on the truths which he is uttering; at last I rush from his company, and he supposes that some urgent business hurries me elsewhere. This man will never understand that he wearies me to extinction unless I tell him so: and the only way to get rid of him is to make him my enemy for life. — Alexis De Tocqueville

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time. — Benjamin Disraeli

There's a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal. — Prince Harry

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow. — Ovid

How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally. Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles. — Cheryl Richardson

I regularly buy and sell cars, but I do not buy and sell fleets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

It was easy to make fun of the marines when they weren't listening. In Holden's navy days, making fun of jarheads was as natural as cussing. But four marines had died getting him off the Donnager, and three of them had made a conscious decision to do so. Holden promised himself that he'd never make fun of them again. — James S.A. Corey

A happy life is not made up of what you have dreamed of, chased after, and achieved, but rather whom you poured your life into, who poured their life into yours, and the difference you've made in the lives of others. — Susan Meissner

It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. — Walter Winchell

Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility. — Radhanath Swami

Ignore the mean voice in your head. It never does any good - ever. — Cheryl Richardson

I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world. — Barry McGee

Unlike the Marines, who are given macho monikers like "jarheads," the Coast Guard had long been denigrated in military circles as fey "puddle jumpers." But just as 9/11 brought a newfound respect to firemen, Katrina did the same for the reputation of the Coast Guard. At the peak of rescue operations they had 62 aircraft, 30 cutters, and 111 small boats stepping up in rescue and recovery operations. They did it all one person at a time. — Douglas Brinkley

It's always overwhelming when you get a nice response to something, because you really invest in these projects, and you can't help but really care what other people think. — Shelley Conn

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind. — Henri Matisse

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind — E.P. Thompson