Puton Quotes & Sayings

The same advice my commanding officer at Patrol Squadron 17, Cmdr. Robert J. Quinn, gave me before I was grilled to be given the responsibility to lead a crew of 12 all over the world, ready to stop a Russian submarine preparing to wipe out an American city with a nuclear missile: 'Always remember that common sense and communication will solve 95 percent of the challenges you face in the Navy and life.' — Pete Olson

Much I marvelled at the sagacity evinced by waiters and chamber-maids in proportioning the accommodation to the guest. How could inn-servants and ship-stewardesses everywhere tell at a glance that I, for instance, was an individual of no social significance, and little burdened by cash? They did know it evidently: I saw quite well that they all, in a moment's calculation, estimated me at about the same fractional value. The fact seemed to me curious and pregnant: I would not disguise from myself what it indicated, yet managed to keep up my spirits pretty well under its pressure.
Having at last landed in a great hall, full of skylight glare, I made my way somehow to what proved to be the coffee room.It cannot be denied that on entering this room I trembled somewhat; felt uncertain, solitary, wretched; wished to Heaven I knew whether I was doing right or wrong; felt convinced that it was the last, but could not help myself. — Charlotte Bronte

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes. — John C. Maxwell

As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they believe they're paying for. — Chellie Pingree

No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly. — Richard Hakluyt

Direwolf dead in the snow, a broken antler in its throat. — George R R Martin

We resumed our steady march through the sleeping street. Boulder City was incredibly quiet. If Vegas was the city that never slept, then Boulder made up for it. It slept like a drunkard on a feather bed. We hadn't even been barked at. — Amy Harmon

Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned. — Derek Sivers

If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris. — Tom Ford

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song? — William Butler Yeats

Truth is everlasting. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The longer the wars, the younger the men who must finish them. — Billy O'Connor

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true. — Susanna Hoffs

I wasn't sure who I was most scared of at the moment. The stranger I was learning about too quickly, or the woman I'd known my entire life that was quickly becoming a stranger. — Megan Miranda