Odierno Quotes & Sayings

You've got to hae ground forces that are capable of going after them and rooting them out. — Raymond T. Odierno

Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and their leaders to accomplish their mission in the chaos of war. Recent incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment demonstrate that we have violated that trust. — Raymond T. Odierno

I had gotten used to the idea that people lived and you loved them, or didn't, and then they died and you were bound to miss them, often even if you didn't love them. — Amy Bloom

Sometimes extraordinary things can happen on the most ordinary of days. — Julie Garwood

We sell the movies. Women need to know they are an asset and they are the ones who should be making the money. — Jenna Jameson

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it. — George Polya

Stories are important too. Stories help make sense of things. They make you believe you can do things. They help you imagine that things may be different, that if you just have enough courage ... or faith ... or goodness ... you can change things for the better. — Kate Forsyth

Know this: anyone who does anything worthy, anything noble, anything meaningful, will have critics. — Eric Greitens

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute. — Baha'u'llah

I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something. — Marie Lu

All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.' — Raymond T. Odierno

The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there ... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years. — Raymond T. Odierno

The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever together by common democratic values and traditions. This will never change. — Colin Powell

It's always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn't think he already is. — Hillary Clinton

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked. — Andy Borowitz

I can grab on to each moment of joy and live in those moments because I have seen the bright contrast from dark to light and back again. — Jenny Lawson

Lincoln discovered Generals Grant and Sherman. Roosevelt had Eisenhower and Bradley. I found David Petraeus and Ray Odierno. — George W. Bush

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself. — Mark Twain

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky