Raymond 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

Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice. — Charles Bukowski

Kind of like getting married." I smiled at him. "It's easy to say I do, but ten times harder to say I don't. — Denise Grover Swank

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible. — Liz Phair

God, this guy is a harassment lawsuit wearing a fake Rolex. If he ever tried that with some of the hardcore gamer girls out in The Belly, he'd be toast. — Ernie Lindsey

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action. — James E. Talmage

There is always a price to be paid to be a success if you are ready to pay then success is all yours. — Deepak Burfiwala

Andrea worked to harden herself to the onslaught of feelings. The problem with feelings was, first you had one, which was generally bad enough. But then you had a feeling about your feeling, and then a feeling about how you were feeling about your feeling, and then another feeling would pop up at the sight of it all, this teetering pyramid of emotion, and all of it would look wrong to Andrea, all her feeling somehow incorrect, too much or too little, too soft or too hard, and another feeling would emerge at the thought of that. It was endless, having feelings. And god forbid someone noticed you having them, as Sophie just had. Then you had feelings about that, about having been seen, and more feelings still about the other person's feelings. Oh, it was awful. — Michelle Tea

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

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

After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber. — Brian Azzarello

But I realized something. When you spend so much of your life worried about the future...you forget to live" -Alice — Kirsten Hubbard

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader. — James Buchan