Resi Quotes & Sayings

We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye, — Jeremiah

You seldom see it in the papers. Once in a while some guys get put up for decorations and a ceremony takes place somewhere. You see them in dress uniforms, standing proud. But that's politics and theater. You should see them as I have, downrange, in action. They're amazing to watch, risking their lives to serve their country. I don't like to talk about valor awards. I don't think it's useful to think about them. We just go to work, and it's the work itself that tells us who we are. Our pride is no less without the fanfare. — Marcus Luttrell

One eye-witness weighs more than ten hearsays - Seeing is believing all the world over. — Plautus

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence. — Aristotle.

Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings — Swami Vivekananda

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to. — Mark Zuckerberg

I laughed. "Resi, darling - " I said, "you have a full life ahead of you." "I have a full life behind me - " she said, "all in those few sweet hours with you. — Kurt Vonnegut

I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria. — Andrew Weil

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. — Douglas MacArthur

Quote for the day from an unknown author:
"Don't ever question the value of volunteers: Noah's Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by porfessionals". — Douglas Boren

If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong! — Leonard Ravenhill

We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer ... Law cannot save us from ourselves ... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again. — Philip K. Howard

Come live with us, Diana. Don't argue. Just say yes."
Diana looked at the ground to hide her emotions. Then she said, "Would I have to be hearing you two going at it night and day? — Michael Grant

The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing. — Debbie Harry

I've lost my heart to you. — Leo Tolstoy

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse. — Beth Ditto