Stavridis For President Quotes & Sayings

Believe nothing till it's officially denied. — David Mitchell

There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. But should it come to the very last, the most important one, at this point a man must halt and stand firm if he doesn't want to begin life all over again with idle hands and a feeling of being shipwrecked. — Milan Kundera

And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart. They called me the best, when I knew I wasn't, and they called him the worst, when he was the best. I mean, there could be no more antipodal environment. So I began to question: What is intelligence? Who says? Who says you're smart? Who says you're not smart? And what do they mean by that? — Tony Buzan

This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember. — Norman Fell

If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity — Epicurus

All great authors are seers. — George Henry Lewes

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. — Stephen Greenblatt

There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65. — Clint Eastwood

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom. — Terence McKenna

The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be confused with cures. The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born. — Aldo Leopold

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. — Edmund Burke