Kommander Quotes & Sayings

I can't say that I ever worried much about what people thought or said of me. I like to be liked, and have often wished that I could be as much loved as Jim Driscoll, say, but I have never been able to bow down to rules and regulations — Freddie Welsh

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed. — Hansie Cronje

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum ... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind ... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle ... — Chinua Achebe

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. — Daniel Ellsberg

I've worked in so many areas
I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been. — David Blackwell

Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine? — Elizabeth Holmes

My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk. — Bernard Moitessier

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment. — Gene Wolfe

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing. — Carlos Santana

On the contrary, what is hidden from the learned and clever is often revealed to the merest children. — John D. Mueller

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree
as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period
we weaken our commitment to the rule of law ... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness. — Alan Dershowitz

I believe in God ... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I don't want to say THERE'S NO GOD! and then die and say, Oh, Hi ... Is there some kind of community service I can do? — Marc Maron

Yes, my sister is weird and says crap like en route. I smirk - it's a common facial tic of mine - and turn to her. — Stacey Wallace Benefiel