Leadership Usmc Quotes & Sayings

When would he ever learn to stop saying "Look" to a man who had no eyes? — Lois Lowry

Dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains. — Noam Chomsky

I felt the mood shift. And, for no reason at all other than that he didn't expect it, I climbed fully clothed into the bath and kissed him as he laughed and spluttered. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall. — Jojo Moyes

The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another. — Flann O'Brien

If you told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child. That's always the way. — Claire Messud

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had - power. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls. — Louisa May Alcott

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is. — Leo Tolstoy