R Lee Ermey Full Metal Jacket Quotes & Sayings

No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have. We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology. — Margaret Mead

Flowers really do intoxicate me. — Vita Sackville-West

No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:
a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.
b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments. — Carlo M. Cipolla

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks. Always be yourself. — James Stewart

And yet what a man is speaks louder than what he does. — Ed Hindson

The parson refused to believe the Apothecary could help, said the monster. When times were easy, the parson nearly destroyed the Apothecary, but when the going grew tough, he was willing to throw aside every belief if it would save his daughters.
"So?" Conor said. "So would anyone! So would everyone! What did you expect him to do? — Patrick Ness

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow. — John Dewey

I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes. — Natalie Cole

It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You must not think that because one thing happens after another thing, then it is the first thing that causes the second thing. You must not think that, because it might not be true. — Alexander McCall Smith