Marines Usmc Quotes & Sayings

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. — Winston Graham

Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum. — Gregory Boyington

The more Marines I have around, the better I like it. — Wesley Clark

His voice was like soothing melted chocolate. I wanted him to ooze his lovely voice all over my naked body. — James Lusarde

Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear. — Anthony Kiedis

I had the '80s hair and braces and a 6-3 frame as a 16-year-old. — Matt Emmons

Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men. — Nathaniel Fick

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. — Jeffrey Deitch

Everyone sounded the same when they died. — Sarah J. Maas

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. — David Dixon Porter

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines. — Dan Dailey

What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us. — Ann Aguirre

He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it. — Josephine Tey

Every spring, this happens: People discover hockey when daylight lasts longer and men grow beards and tie games do not end in shootouts but rather continue until a goal is scored. The seventh game only heightens the mood for players and fans alike. — George Vecsey

After we played Sporting last week, the lads in the dressing room talked about him constantly, and on the plane back from the game they urged me to sign him. That's how highly they rated him. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down. — Jim Bouton

I don't even know how to use a semicolon to this day; I use a comma every time. And you know what? If I email somebody and they get upset about me using a comma instead of a semicolon, that's not a person I want to work with anyway. And that's how you weed people out of your life. — Hannibal Buress

A woman can always strive to be stronger in the face of painful emotions. — Morgan Rhodes

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches
- do the right thing, for the right reason
- no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences. — Josh Rushing

In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers. — Chris Kyle

There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find. — Clayton Christensen